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    BASALT ON THE SENSES

    Dec 11, 2020 2 minutes
    Words Ian Parkes
    Photography
    Simon Larkin

    For a brutalist building that stands so four-square on its ground, this house is full of hidden delights.

    The really big surprise is only revealed once you have crossed a bridge onto the cobbled courtyard. Then you discover the house butts right up against a massive basalt cliff.

    The cliff, in so

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