there’s a kitchen garden on the front of the house
Richard Parr turned into residing and operating in London while, ‘as a assignment‘, he bought a smallresidence within the Cotswolds. some twenty years later, after spending time operating overseas, hedecided to make his flow out of London, and decamped to a 17th-century farmhouse close to Stroud,transferring both his family and his architectural practice.

Simon Brown
He first viewed the belongings – the primary part of what had once been the home farm of a now disbanded estate – one misty October nighttime. The residence regarded over the concrete farmyard;facing it turned into a chain of barns. To Richard this turned into best. ‘Our preceding domesticchanged into turning into too small and that i desired to amplify each professionally and locally,’ says Richard. ‘This tapestry of homes was exactly right. delivered to which the net had become green enoughto make the divide among right here and London insignificant.’

The building, he explains, became ‘nearly industrial‘, each room being there for a motive. The porch acted, then as now, because the hub of the building, giving safety to both people and produce; to theproper was the cellar, and to the left turned into a room previously used to make cheese and beer. none of the rooms is large and while Richard moved in, all of the detailing were eliminated in an try at modernisation. because the property was broken up, hedges were planted to demarcate numerousindividual gardens. ‘It felt suburban,’ Richard says. ‘We have been within the center of the countrysidebut with leylandii hedges everywhere.’ Slowly, he has sold returned tranches of land, taken down the hedges and opened up views, orchards and fields as before.

Simon Brown

Simon Brown
The concrete farmyard was dug up and has now emerge as a vegetable garden, so Richard canappearance out of the kitchen window and notice whether he has enough spinach to make a specificrecipe that day.

opposite are the barns, where 12 architects and architects are busy working on initiatives both in London and the u . s . a .. these include newbuild projects, which Richard describes as being ‘abstracted from the vernacular however not a pastiche’, the usage of indigenous materials, okayframes, crimson ironstone and thatched roofs, with the relaxation being glass, blending strong and transparent inside the samebuilding.

Simon Brown

Simon Brown

Simon Brown
The front porch’s eating area is the hub of the residence in summer months

The residence has turned out to be supremely realistic. As Richard says, ‘i’m able to have greater than 30humans right here and not feel cramped – within the summer season we can all eat on the porch. Or Ican be right here by myself and not feel on my own; it feels a little like a cosy flat. there is not a dividebetween u . s . a . and city.’

click to peer inside the farmhouse…