![]() ![]() The result is a mix of eye-catching Pierre Frey, Fermoie and Manuel Canovas. ![]() Sarah’s friend, the decorator Frances Penn (daughter of design legend David Mlinaric) helped her to source interesting fabrics. Two small sitting rooms are filled with comfortable sofas and armchairs, all sourced by Sarah, who is a dab hand at searching out second-hand finds on Ebay: ‘I get a real sense of achievement from tracking down great bargains online and giving them new life.’ Yet Sarah, who is also an artist, has added accents of bold colour – a back wall in the boot room, for example, is in a sunshine yellow scumble. Parquet flooring and original flagstones are flanked by thick, uneven walls, in those muted pinks and yellows that you find only in very old cottages. Goulters Mill was just such a place it has an inviting intimacy about it. Panelling in Little Greene’s ‘Normandy Grey’ sets off a painting by Endellion Lycett Green. So we had to compromise and find a house that didn’t feel too overwhelming for him if he was to spend time here alone.’ Renshaw wanted to be primarily based in the country, but I wanted to be in London and only spend weekends there. ‘We thought about buying a house in the country eight years ago. ![]() This creative couple and their three children divide their time between here and their London home – but in their own special way. There are dog beds in every room and no one has to take their shoes off when they come in.’ There is nothing formal about this house and that’s how we like it. ‘Every time I arrive at the end of the track, I feel as if I’m going back in time. ‘I love the Howards End atmosphere of this magical place,’ says Sarah. Because the stream runs under the property and through the garden, water can be heard everywhere. It served the local ‘big house’ in Castle Combe and would have been used for the production of flour. The mill was built over Bybrook, a waterway that was originally a tributary of the River Avon. Painted in limewash the colour of sunset, Goulters Mill is the inviting home of architect Renshaw Hiscox and his writer wife Sarah. Climbers clad the Cotswold stone Paul MasseyĪt the end of a long, disused, fern-lined track at the heart of the Cotswold Way, sits a 16th-century millhouse and its surrounding outbuildings. ![]()
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