The heart of THE MANOR
A Grade II listed Georgian country house in a quintessential Warwickshire village has been sympathetically brought into the 21st century FEATURE ANNETTE WARREN PHOTOGRAPHY CLIVE NICHOLS
‘We have a walled cutting garden – formerly a donkey paddock – and grow seasonal flowers for the house’
Deep in the leafy lanes of rural Warwickshire lies a scattering of honeytoned villages seemingly lost in time. In the heart of one such village, set on an old drover’s road from Wales to Northampton and where ironstone cottages are arranged around the village green, sits Katie and Mark Rotheram’s handsome Grade II listed manor house, unassuming from the road, tucked away behind iron gates and a winding gravel drive.
Built in 1805, the house has undergone several changes during its lifetime, the most dramatic being since Katie and Mark bought it in 2001. “I had initially seen it advertised in a magazine the previous year and dismissed it for being too far from London. When we discovered it was still on the market, we drove up to take a look, and that was it,” remembers Katie. Although the house was in desperate need of a makeover, the couple felt they were up for the
The sitting room is decorated with family mementos and a collection of 17th-century oils and watercolours bought at auction by Mark.
ABOVE LEFT Katie picking pink peonies in the walled cutting garden to the south of the house.
The richly textured 1930s Moroccan rug from Yonder
establishes a feeling of cosy warmth in the sitting room.
has opted for a palette of understated colours in florals, stripes and block prints including Guy
Living
Nadia
Goodfellow’s Olive Sacking on the ottoman.
A curated COLLECTION
Interior designer Nadia Oliver has decorated her home in the Cotswolds with a covetable and much-loved collection of fabrics, furniture and artefacts – some new, some vintage, all beautiful
FEATURE AMANDA HARLING PHOTOGRAPHY ANDREAS VON EINSIEDEL
The glazed extension was designed to be a clear delineation and to honour the footprint of the original cottage. It features a kitchen, dining room and sitting area as well as doors that slide wide open to make the most of indoor/outdoor living and family dining beside the swimming pool.
The best of
A clever combination of contemporary and vernacular has transformed this18th-century Cotswold cottage
FEATURE KERRYN HARPER-CUSS
both worlds
architecture together with modern and vintage interiors into a perfect home for 21st-century family life
PHOTOGRAPHY MARK NICHOLSON
A lampshade from Oka tops the lamp base on the antique chest to the left of the inglenook fireplace, in which sits a candlestick from Philip Grob Blacksmith. The dried hydrangeas on the chest came from Columbia Road Flower Market in London.