Thanks for the tip on the doctors - that's really helpful!
Yes, the house is part of that conversion - but we're only renting, not buying it sadly!
We chose the Canterbury area because we wanted somewhere less busy than gretaer London, somewhere cheaper and somewhere were we could have more access to the countryside. Plus we loved the city when we visited it. Chartham just came up because we found a house there! But when we visited it is seemed just what we were looking for - a nice small village but within a short drive of all the amenities of the city. Just hope we like it now!