The 19th-century stone house is a masterful blend of old and new Greenhayes, the home of Cathy and Alistair Colston, is situated on a half-acre of land in the middle of the picturesque English village of Wellow, just a few miles south of Bath. Wellow is the quintessential Cotswolds town: There are no streetlights and exactly one church, school, shop, and public house, all nestled in rolling hills. Look it up on Google Maps and the images are of stonework, dirt roads, and sheep.
Built in the early 19th century (with, Cathy says, a portion dating back to the 1600s that operated as a pub), the two-story home looks straight out of a Jane Austen novel, constructed with ashlar masonry and topped with a parapet that runs along the edge of the slate roof, with a moulded cornice just underneath. A wall surrounds three-quarters of the house, and there are front and back gardens. It?s a queenly structure overlooking one of the main streets in town. The similarities to classic British literature stop there, though. Look to the left and a low-slung, modern addition emerges in front of a setback wing, a clue to the more contemporary interiors.

The Colstons outside Greenhayes, their home in the picturesque English village of Wellow, a few miles south of Bath.

The Colstons, who had been living in the Parson?s Green neighborhood of London, were looking for a change of scenery 20 years ago when an opportunity arose for Cathy to relocate for work. She dreamed ...