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Jeremy Musson Hugo Rittson Thomas

Secret Houses of the Cotswolds

Jeremy Musson,  Hugo Rittson Thomas

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English
Frances Lincoln
10 April 2025
Photographs: collections; Palaces, chateaux, country houses; Museum, historic sites, gallery & art guides
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.
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Imprint:   Frances Lincoln
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 250mm,  Width: 210mm, 
Weight:   500g
ISBN:   9781836004899
ISBN 10:   1836004893
Pages:   144
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Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Introduction  1 Asthall Manor  2 Broughton Castle  3 Burford Priory  4 Campden House  5 Chavenage  6 Cornwell Manor  7 Daneway  8 Duck End House  9 Duns Tew Manor  10 Frampton Court  11 Hilles House  12 Hillside Farm  13 Notgrove Manor  14 Owlpen Manor  15 Sarsden House  16 Stanway  17 Sudeley Castle  18 Upton House  19 Wardington Manor  20 Wormington Grange  House opening information  Index  Acknowledgments 

Jeremy Musson is an architectural historian, writer and broadcaster who worked for Country Life for twelve years, first as Architectural Writer and then as Architectural Editor. He has a particular enthusiasm for the late-seventeenth-century and early-eighteenth-century English county houses and has visited all the surviving works of Vanbrugh. He is passionate about engaging a wider audience in the marvels and spectacles of the English country house tradition. A former assistant curator for the National Trust in East Anglia, he also presented the popular BBC2 series, The Curious House Guest. He is the author of The Country Houses of Sir John Vanbrugh, The English Manor House: from the Archives of Country Life and How to Read a House. Born in London in 1965, he now lives with his family in Cambridge.HUGO RITTSON THOMAS is one of the UK's leading portrait photographers. He started his career in the art world, studying at Central St.Martin's and Goldsmiths University of London, and took part in the landmark exhibition Temple of Diana alongside Tracey Emin at The Blue Gallery in 1999. Hugo lives and has a studio in London.

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