Hampshire: the first new country house under special laws
Hampshire: the first new country house under special laws.
When the new law allowing country houses on isolated sites came in, this was the first permission given for an entirely new house on a greenfield site. It sits in the middle of a large farming estate in Hampshire. The design is inventive and original, with large areas of glass and views out in all directions. The house is divided into two parts, the large entertaining rooms are in a cubic stone building; the family rooms are in a smaller brick wing. The architecture of the two wings is the same but one is much simplified. The farm office is in a linked tower and the back yard has a family entrance. The design won the Georgian Group award for Best New Building in the Classical Tradition in 2007.