Rural charms
Jun 01, 2022
4 minutes
Photographs by Clive Nichols
BUILT by the neighbouring farming family in 1870 from the local, rather dour blue lias stone, Westbrook House in West Bradley, Somerset, has no aspirations to grandeur or playfulness. ‘It is a very plain house; there is nothing fancy about it,’ says Keith Anderson, who bought it in 2003 with his partner, David Mendel.
‘We didn’t want to drop a formal garden into a rural landscape’
Although the couple have since come to love the austere charms of the house, the four surrounding acres were what they were most interested in, a chance to create a garden
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