Dorset Old Parsonage Ben Pentreath.

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Littlebredy is an enchanting estate village at the head of the Bride Valley, bought in 1797 by the Williams family who, in the first decades of the 19th century, set about creating a model village to the west of Bridehead House.

Met at the Old Parsonage by architectural and interior designer Ben Pentreath and his florist husband, Charlie McCormick, a private tour of the carefully restored house and garden, in its extraordinary setting on the edge of the narrow valley, is followed by a visit to the church, lake and village.
"In Dorset, we rent an old parsonage in an idyllic position in a south-facing valley.
When I was young, the house was rented by my best friend’s parents, so it was a weird experience rediscovering rooms I knew well as a child, two decades on." /Ben Pentreath/

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Ben Pentreath is co-founder, with Bridie Hall, of Pentreath & Hall, one of London’s most distinctive interiors and decoration shops.
Ben Pentreath’s book English Decoration, published in 2011.


- Why I rent and would never buy - FT.com
I live, part of the time, in a village in Dorset (deep in the west of England) where no one owns their own home: an estate village, where every house is tenanted. The entire place consists of about 30 cottages and farmhouses. The smaller cottages are thatched, the larger houses are pure Regency; there is a beautiful lake by our landlord’s splendid Gothic-revival country pile, and a magical walled garden. The whole place could have been conceived by the artist Rex Whistler: it is a dream world.

- How marriage changed designer’s view of his own home decor - FT.com
Ben Pentreath, architectural designer to royalty, has a new husband (Charlie McCormick) with very different ideas about interiors.

- An English Garden for All Seasons - The New York Times
In Dorset, Charlie McCormick has created an embroidered tapestry of blooms that lasts well into fall.

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