Chapel House

Reimagined into the 21st century, Chapel House is a luxury conversion for sale in Wiltshire’s North Wraxall. Large, open-plan family spaces sit next to reading rooms, and cinema snugs; chalk walls, and neutral hues bouncing light around to make spaces that shine. There are three bedrooms (two on the first floor, one on the ground floor), and two bathrooms, where deep rest is encouraged. This modern refuge is an ode to soft minimalism; with much of the chapel’s holy legacy having been retained through this series of rest and play spaces. A luminous kitchen-diner is the core of Chapel House, where its prior life as a manse shines the brightest.

In the UK’s newest AONB, where honey-stoned cottages pepper the streets between thatched inns, Chapel House sits just ten minutes south of Castle Combe, England’s prettiest village. In the other direction, Bristol, with its layers of independent clothing boutiques and grassroots music venues, and Bath, for patisseries and literary ancestry. In the garden, wildflowers sit alongside a natural, heated pool, and local fauna regularly peers over the walls to wish good morning. Sitting on a site of particular historical significance, with a preserved churchyard and Roman roots, this is an exterior space designed to be both simple and therapeutic.