OU MIGHT WELL THINK that a small private house tucked into a valley down the hill beyond the furthest corner of Petworth Park might not have much relevance to the wider concerns of architecture. But I remember thinking when the house was shortlisted for the RIBA House of the Year Award how nice it was to see an architect playing games with classical architecture, inserting Diocletian windows into blank brickwork, treating classicism as a form of geometry, not detailing. So, I made arrangements to visit it and meet its architect, Adam Richards,
