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Henrietta and Mark Stroyan have very little information on the history of their North Yorkshire grange but what they do know is that the earliest parts date to the 1720s, and that over the years the house has expanded – and also contracted. “I have a photograph, which probably dates to the 1920s, showing a ballroom attached to the back of the house,” says Henrietta, who is known to friends and family as ‘Bunch’. “We know that this had disappeared by the 1950s as someone knocked on the door to tell us that she had lived here during that time. She