A personal tour of twenty of the UK's most beguiling houses in
this much loved area of western England.
Author and architectural historian, Jeremy Musson, and Cotswolds-based
photographer Hugo Rittson Thomas, offer privileged access to twenty
houses, from castles and manor houses, as well as eighteenth- and
nineteenth-century mansions, revealing their history, architecture and
interiors, in the company of their devoted owners.
In the footsteps of artists and designers including Humphry and George
Repton, and Victorian visionary, William Morris, who inspired the arts
and crafts movement, and others such as Detmar Blow, Norman Jewson,
Clough Williams-Ellis
and Oliver Hill, we find a series of fascinating country houses of
different sizes and atmospheres, which have shaped the English identity.
Each house has their own story, but their distinctive honey-coloured
stone walls, set amongst rolling
hills, in different ways express the ideals of English life.
Most of the houses included here are privately owned and not usually
open to the public. In this beautifully produced book, they can now be
enjoyed through the eyes of their owners, as well as an experienced
architectural historian, and an award-winning photographer.
