From the Archive: Ansty, Dorset

Ansty Plum, The Modern House
Ansty, The Modern House
Ansty, The Modern House

This astonishing house, located in the ancient hamlet of Ansty on the Dorset / Wiltshire border, was built in 1962 by Arup to the designs of David Levitt. Alison and Peter Smithson made later additions to the property, making it undoubtedly one of finest architect-designed homes in Britain.

The property consists of a main house with two bedrooms, a guest house in the grounds and planning permission for further accommodation.

Sited on one side of a small, green valley – overlooking a lake and a 13th century church – the house is in an idyllic setting. The house has been referred to as a ‘lost Modernist masterpiece’ due to the nature of its setting in the secluded hamlet of Ansty (and also, perhaps, in reference to the fact that it has been little published).

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