Made in design

The challenge was to release the sharp lines of the rectory from the woodland and wed the house within the Cornish countryside

Perched on sloping ground, just above a small, wooded valley and surrounded by rolling Cornish countryside, sits a striking Victorian house, known locally as the Old Rectory. Designed in 1858 by the notable British architect, William Butterfield, a prominent exponent of the Gothic Revival, the house was used as a rectory right up until the early 1970s, and in 1988 it was given