A remarkable restoration

IN torrential rain and buffeted by vicious cross winds, I drove over the old Severn Bridge into Wales recently to meet Helena Gerrish at High Glanau Manor, her house near Monmouth, originally designed for himself by Henry Avray Tipping.

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I was there to talk to Mrs Gerrish about her latest book on another Tipping house, Mounton, near Chepstow, which has just undergone an extraordinary restoration.

‘Harry’ Tipping began to write for COUNTRY LIFE in 1903 and became its Architectural Editor in 1907. By the time he began building Mounton in 1911, Tipping had written a staggering 700 articles; he was, therefore, instrumental in turning the magazine, which originally focused on racing and golf, into the country-lifestyle publication we know today.