I see what you mean!
https://www.worldofinteriors.com/story/garners-old-medicine-house
Alan describes the tragedies and triumphs of former owners and visitors to both the houses: Mrs Carter, who lived in Toad Hall all her life and cared for her disabled brother, left the furniture on the condition that it would remain in the house. Edward Pope, a schoolmaster who had survived a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp, made the first modern improvement to the house, piping water from the well into the house and installing a semi-rotary hand pump in the kitchen. For the first time in her life, Mrs Carter had running water. And then there was ‘the Rat Man’, who visited the Old Medicine House to lay traps, moving from room to room with a growing sense of disquiet. Rounding a corner, he turned whey-white: he’d found his initials carved into a beam, despite never having visited the area. He’d played in the house as a child when it was located 18 miles away. Later in his life, returning from Dunkirk on a train of wounded soldiers bound for an unknown destination, he wiped his sleeve over the misted glass. Framed in the small circle was the house, and he knew he was almost home.
Edited to add: I didn't know he had a book published recently, Treacle Walker, which looks intriguing (very mixed reviews on Amazon, but the first says "It’s about a boy living alone, recovering from an illness, whose eyes each see the scene in front of him differently"... which ties in nicely, in a way, with Marianne Dreams!