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.

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