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W O R D S : J E N N T H O R N T O N PHOTOGRAPHS: COURTESY OF HUFTON & CROW AND ANDREW MEREDITH
Built around an 18th century edifice in the Cotswolds, architect
Richard Found's contextual country home is the work of a committed minimalist.
R EVISIONIST HISTORY
esignated an Area of Outstanding
Natural Beauty in the UK, the
Cotswolds is a painterly landscape
of ancient woodlands, limestone valleys and
graceful undulations of green. Here, in a secret
valley, is a holdover of an earlier time: a derelict
18th century gamekeeper's cottage. Sheathed
in stone and rich in character, this period set
piece is at the heart of a sensitive intervention
based on Modernist doctrine by architect
Richard Found of the London-based practice
Found Associates. The building speaks to the
vernacular stone construction of the Cotswolds
that, along with the age-old terrain, inspired
new architecture that forms a contemporary
family home for Found himself.
While irrefutably picturesque, the site—a
16.5-acre plot that Found discovered while
perusing the local paper—was not without
its complications, including the ramshackle
state of its existing cottage and other neglected
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