Perched atop a berm in Denver’s Washington Park Neighborhood, the design idea for this house was to create a “Cotswold Cottage” that would blend seamlessly into the neighborhood. In a neighborhood not necessarily known for its Cotswold style architecture or heavy use of limestone, our work was set out for us. We decided to create a building that would predate the 1920s and 1930s era bungalows that are prominent in the area.

To write this home’s story, we knew we needed to source a local, rubble sandstone whose vein can be seen when traveling just about anywhere along the front range of Colorado and New Mexico. Together with this native stone, the steep pitched roof lines and clay roof tiles seen in the villages of the Cotswold’s come together to craft an homage to an early homestead where materials were selected from the local hillside and placed to form the walls of this little cottage named Aldwyn.