Heritage Now #10

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TOP: Orchard Farm, the long garden elevation with the barn conversion on the right displayed Prentice’s assured and confident handling of the Cotswold tradition of architecture. RIGHT: Orchard Farm, Broadway, Worcestershire. The long leaded-light and stone mullioned L-shaped window, wrapped round the corner of the barn conversion, illustrated how Prentice would subtly and imaginatively develop the Cotswold vernacular.

and old Cotswold farmhouse to suit the modern requirements of a country house.

gravitas to the long elevation with Prentice’s chimney gable in the former cart door opening, rising elegantly to lofty stone stacks. The exten sive garden to the south and west of the house was ambitiously landscaped and featured sweep ing lawns and topiary, with individual areas defined by hedging and dry stone walls. Orchard Farm showcased Prentice’s considerable skill in remodelling, altering and extending a large

Symington Lodge, near Biggar, in Lanarkshire and built in 1914, was Prentice’s second build ing project for his shipping magnate brother Thomas Prentice, who commissioned a grand country residence to complement his town house at Kelvinside in Glasgow. The brief encompassed

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