A Year at the Parsonage

A love letter to a decade spent at The Old Parsonage — a Georgian house in a small Dorset village transformed by architect Ben Pentreath and his husband Charlie McCormick into a garden-filled, quietly beautiful home. The book follows the rhythm of the seasons across a year: the garden coming to life in spring, summer gatherings with friends, the reflection of winter — and finally, the couple's last months at the house before leaving for a new life on the remote Orkney island of Rousay.

Filled with personal photographs and candid anecdotes, it is as much about the practice of making a home as it is about the house itself — the daily routines, the evolving garden, the interiors shaped over time. For anyone drawn to English country living, considered gardening, or the particular tenderness of a place deeply loved.