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May Savidge (25 May 1911–30 April 1993) was a British woman who dismantled and rebuilt her medieval home to prevent it from being demolished.

Life
May Alice Savidge was born in London in 1911. She worked as a technical illustrator.

Savidge's home was built in Ware, Hertfordshire, in about 1450. When the council issued a demolition order in the 1960s, Savidge decided to relocate the house brick by brick to Wells-next-the-Sea, Norfolk.

Savidge died in 1993, leaving the house to her niece, Christine Adam.

In 2007, the BBC's Antiques Roadshow broadcast two features on May Savidge.