Lou is the owner of Cragend Farm with her husband Shaun, and deals with everything from Holiday Accommodation inquiries to egg collection from the chickens; she is the social media and web design finger-tapper.
In 2010 Shaun and Lou started the process of applying to planning permission to renovate buildings at Cragend Farm.
The main barns were conditionally allowed to be altered from agricultural to domestic use on the basis of 18 conditions, set by the planning Officers, and some of the conditions related to the Grade II* listed Silo to the east of the farm.
None of the work could start until the repairs to the slate roof of the SIlo had been completed.
The main problem was that the two holes in the roof had caused severe damage internally and there were no floors safe enough to walk on in the tower.
The building work began with scaffolding on the main tower and an internal clean out of 100 years worth of debris in order to place a scaffold tower inside.
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Cragend Farm has a interesting and diverse history, from technical innovations to historic buildings. Tied in closely to the neighbouring Cragside Estate home of Victorian inventor and industrialist Lord Armstrong.