Of Episode 5, the one home which prompted further reflection is Mouse Cottage ……for if home is defined in language, then Mouse Cottage exemplified two terms so associated with ‘home’: the type of home: ‘Cottage’ …and that familiar component so often inherently associated with home: ‘Garden’.
Of the former, I admit that initially I have less to say, other than this example of ‘Cottage’ was truly an exemplar. Less so the decor; but rather in its traditional and thereby familiar disposition, of front door placed centrally, of small rooms and thick roughly hewn stone walls and deep-set windows, square of course, and ceilings upstairs that pressed down upon one’s head, making manifest that most impressionable aspect of Cottage: spatial intimacy (a polite way of saying: tiny …. as more befitting a mouse perhaps…?)
Leaving further thoughts aside of the Cottage itself, and moving onto its setting, it’s a curious fact, that so often buildings of this nature – buildings that are essentially tight in spatial terms – are built in landscapes whose character is of anything but restraint. As it is here – outside, spatially, was undeniably a counterpoint to the spatial character of the Cottage: a scene of cascading pastoral intensity, an outpouring, as if necessarily complimentary – and furthermore, resplendent in a curious facet all its own: the number of frightfully rightful places to sit. Undeniably the Garden had received as much investment as the Cottage, and rightly so, perpetuating the sense of repose that the Cottage too endorsed; and curiously yet, the Garden had been so manipulated to appear ‘random’ as distinct to the tended nature of the infinitely more ‘smooth’ character of the neighbouring golf course. Nature in both manicured therefore, equally, to suit their own ends.
Personally, I could not live here, much as I enjoy watching golf. Truth is: Cottages just do not do it for me – unless they are in a considerably greater state of disrepair. For it is their age that I am drawn to, that they are aged. It is a quality that I suspect entices many, though I must confess, I would sooner let the past that existed before my time, remain past. The echoes don’t stir in me, as I might interpret (possibly incorrectly) they might in habitants of such Cottages: as if echoes of the past can (continue to) have validity, greater than that of the present? It’s a harsh observation on my part, perhaps, and if so, apology is duly proferreed – but nevertheless, I often sense in such circumstances, denial; as if steel had (or worse, preferred that it had) never been invented…..? Mind you, I’m not sure, whether given a choice I’d opt for steel before stone, but that decision is one based more on the inherent prescient qualities of each – not the appeal of those echoes of distant associations, and the implication of time, being better then, than now. I can understand the appeal, but personally, I cannot live comfortably in the long past. And anyway, I’m too tall…….
But credit is most certainly, and objectively due: for Mouse Cottage is unquestionably delightful. More so, I cannot forget, nor undervalue the delight evident also in the external workroom – in and of itself a simple yet wonderful little space, which offered that experience which never fails to thrill in an architectural ticklish kind of way – by entering through what seems to be both a door and a window, at one and the same time.
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Altogether then, I’d suspect many would consider Mouse Cottage the ideal Cottage – and Garden – and yes, absolutely ideal, as I might – but this reflection began, by wondering about the terminology, as it might define the typology: Cottage. Of all the inferences, more than anything I’d suggest it infers stasis, as opposed to dynamic, as say ‘Apartment’, or ‘Flat’ might. It’s a place that has ‘done its time’, and as such, it’s a place where one could dutifully rest, and not feel pressurised by any lingering demand of time, to keep up; for time itself rests here too……
Maybe, one day, a Cottage might also suit me, ideally so……its just a matter of time……
Michael Angus (Dec 2020)