Escape to the Country star halts search as couple blown away by unexpected feature

During Friday's occurrence of the BBC show, Sonali Shah was connected a ngo to assistance a mates find their imagination location successful Welsh Borders for a quieter gait of life

Escape to the Country's Sonali Shah brought a spot hunt to a halt and suggested "let's spell back" aft the buyers were near taken backmost by an unexpected detail.

In Friday's (October 25) occurrence of the fashionable BBC show, Sonali was tasked with helping a mates find their imagination location successful the tranquil Welsh Borders.

Scott, a carpenter, and his librarian and virtual PA woman Julie, had their hearts acceptable connected starting afresh successful Wales aft spending the past 16 years successful Epsom Surrey.

The dance-enthusiast pair, who archetypal got unneurotic successful 2001, were attracted to the Wye Valley and Monmouthshire, but remained unfastened to properties connected either broadside of the Welsh Borders.

With a fund of £620k, they were looking for a detached household location with astatine slightest 3 bedrooms, adjacent to a village. It was important that determination was an outbuilding for Scott to found his workshop, reports Wales Online.

They besides desired a ample plot and onshore to commencement a vacation fto business. Discussing their reasons for wanting to relocate, Scott expressed his tendency for much abstraction to turn his business.

He besides shared: "I grew up successful a municipality called Monmouth truthful I've been trying to get backmost and I've yet dragged Julie backmost here."

Julie admitted that she wasn't bothered astir the view, she added: "I would emotion determination with onshore oregon a small watercourse but I'm not excessively fussed astir the presumption but arsenic agelong arsenic we are successful bully surroundings."

Sonail arranged respective spot viewings matching each the couple's requirements, but conscionable moments into one, the TV big announced: "Lets not spot this house."

As they approached the property, Julie remarked: "And a beauteous presumption implicit there." To which Sonail highlighted: "And you didn't adjacent privation a view."

Julie admitted: "I didn't adjacent privation a view. I wasn't adjacent disquieted astir that but present it's here. Sonail: "Let's spell backmost past and not spot this house. "

Yet, it was different location dubbed the Mystery location that genuinely captured their hearts. The location located successful the Brecon Beacons National Park and less than six miles from the bustling Hay-on-Wye, the Mystery location stood retired with its barn conversion charm and an charismatic £615,000 terms tag, comfortably nether the couple's fund by fractional a cardinal quid.

Julie couldn't fell her enthusiasm, exclaiming: "It does instrumentality your enactment away." She did observe 1 downside: "The lone antagonistic is that it is successful the mediate of obscurity but It's the cleanable house."

They ended up deciding to put a 2nd sojourn for a person look astatine what mightiness go their imagination home.

Escape to the Country airs weekdays connected BBC One and iPlayer