It was the size, location and great location of the house on Pattison Lane that first appealed to the current owners when they saw it back in 2016. “It was just a few minutes’ walk from the Grand Union Canal and had very easy access to schools, shops, the motorway and the centre of Milton Keynes,” one of them recalls. “Yet as one of the original villages here, it also had a very leafy, semi-rural feel, which we liked – it still felt like a village.” The five-bedroom house was a good-size, with very generous living and bedroom space. “We could see that we could open up the ground floor of the property and adjust the layout in places to make changes that would be perfect for the size of the house, improve the flow and suit our own style of living,” the other owner adds.