Windward House Gloucestershire, Modern English Home Photos, Alison Brooks Architecture
Windward House, Gloucestershire, UK
13 Aug 2020
Windward House
Location: Gloucestershire, South West England, UK
Design: Alison Brooks Architects

Photos © Paul Riddle
Windward House in Gloucestershire
Alison Brooks completes a monumental house and living art gallery high above the Wye Valley
13th of August 2020 – Alison Brooks Architects? latest house is set atop the highest point in Gloucestershire, overlooking the Wye Valley. The result of a ten-year collaboration, this new house and landscape project celebrates domestic living amongst an extraordinary collection of Indian and African Tribal Art.
It includes the restoration and conversion of a late Georgian farmhouse to a Gallery and office, a new fully accessible ?West Wing?, a sequence of walled gardens and a new Pool Gallery.
Set in an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, Brooks likes to describe Windward House as ?a gallery with people living in it?, where the owners? art collection are like friends and family sharing the spaces of daily life. The house is also a journey. Intertwining old and new, its sequence of rooms, buildings and landscapes tell a story from the 18th C to today.

Light is sculpted and funnelled from above and walls unfold, framing epic views across the meadows and forests to the Severn River. Art works from the collection animate this journey occupying plinths, ramps, niches and staircases.

The restor...