When Janey and Hew Dalrymple moved to the East Lothian farmhouse that previously belonged to Hew’s grandmother they found an exposed two-storey property surrounded by wheat fields. There were no trees, and the hedges between the fields had been torn out, leaving the house open to the wind that blew in from the Firth of Forth. But the views to the south towards the Lammermuir Hills and to the west over Berwick Law were magnificent.