![]() ![]() The nursery where Young and his sister, Katrina, played always had lining paper pinned to its walls and readily available crayons. His mother, Jill, trained as a painter and continued to produce still-life flower pictures and local scenes, so art was a daily activity. His father, Peter, liked the old ways of doing things, among which was maintaining dry-stone walls, on which the fledgling builder worked with him. Young’s parents both had roots in the area going back several generations and he grew up on the farm that Prince Albert had planned as a demonstration facility for his Royal Agricultural College. Ultimately, it was a combination of three houses, but one in particular served as the base for his notable and action-filled life as an artist, artisan, educator, thinker and networker, so that the person and the building became so intertwined that one could scarcely be understood without the other. The death earlier in 2023 of the remarkable figure of Rory Young, at the age of 68, has brought to an end his admirable transformation of a small and unassuming townhouse in Cirencester. Alan Powers reflects on his influence and enthusiasms as embodied here with photographs by Paul Highnam for Country Life. Number 7 Park Street, in the Gloucestershire town of Cirencester, is a Cotswold townhouse which echoes the remarkable career of its restorer and creator, Rory Young. ![]() Country Life's Top 100 architects, builders, designers and gardeners. ![]()
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