Property News · July 17, 2016

Brutalism at home


A forgotten brutalist gem in Wiltshire has been lovingly brought back to lifeSome great buildings flaunt themselves. But others hide – like the tiny brutalist jewel known as Ansty Plum, nestled deep in a Wiltshire valley. It’s a miniature masterpiece which, in the words of its latest residents, “somehow slipped through the 20th century unnoticed”.Architect Sandra Coppin and her husband Nico had wanted something entirely different. South African-born, with two young daughters, they’d begun to feel confined in their London flat. Initially they’d set their sights on Norfolk, aiming for wide horizons and extra breathing space (and, critically, somewhere for Nico to fulfil his childhood fantasy of a garden big enough to warrant a tractor-mower). But, instead, an internet search threw up this intriguing 60s modernist house in a small Wiltshire village, which had sat on the market for a year. Coppin stresses: “We were not interested. It didn’t fit the brief at all. A one-bedroom house, on a third of an acre, in the middle of nowhere. But I saw that it had a little studio built by the Smithsons, so my interest was piqued. We just thought: ‘Let’s go, have a pub lunch, and pretend we’re going to buy it.’” Continue reading…

Source : theguardian.com
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