The £950,000 home on Lyndale Avenue has five bedrooms and is described as a “character-filled property” in Wilpshire.

You can’t talk about the house on Thunder Lake without talking about Dennis Olsen. For Olsen, who grew up in a low-income family and at one time lived in a $7-a-month apartment, the house was a dream.

So when they left Potomac, Md., to buy their retirement home on Lake Keowee in South Carolina, the Hallocks chose a ...