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Project Name: Cotswold Village House

Location: Gloucestershire, UK

Date Completed: December 2020

Interior Designer: Pippa Paton Design Limited

Architect: Pippa Paton Design Limited

Construction Company: Boom Construction

Photography: Ed Shepherd

The brief for Pippa Paton Design Limited was to create a modern country style family home with a light spacious feel reflecting natural colours and incorporating vintage pieces throughout. This Grade II Listed Cotswold village property, once a series of cottages, consisted of small, dark, low-ceilinged rooms on various levels, connected by long corridors required a complete renovation.

Pippa Paton Design Limited’s approach was to introduce new openings to enhance flow and simplify circulation, remove walls to reduce corridors and vault spaces to increase volume and light. The focus throughout was on exposing and enhancing historic materials such as flagstones, timber trusses and stone windows.

The Grade II listed house sits within a village environment and both internally and externally we have exposed and enhanced the original fabric of the building such as stone and timbers which is also the fabric of the local countryside. The colours throughout the house reflect the colours of nature, such as the soft greens and Verdigris accents in the kitchen reflecting the vistas through the picture window.

The house now feels as if was intended to be a single house rather than a series of cottages, with the new design enabling the family to enjoy all the spaces whilst still feeling connected to each other. Where rooms are intended for evening use such as the family sitting room and the bar, depth and warmth have been retained through the use of rich, deep colours, such as in the bar with its claret-coloured walls The design has also provided a significantly enhanced connection between the house and its grounds both physically, with new openings allowing easier access to external spaces, and visually, such as the picture window providing spectacular views of thoroughbred horses in the paddocks across the valley.