From the desk · 4 min read
What we mean by modern countryside
A short note on the kind of houses we choose to list — and the kind we choose not to.
About Field & Form
A small agency for the kind of houses we would want to live in.
Field & Form began in a kitchen in the Cotswolds in 2012, when our founder — tired of selling barn conversions as if they were commodity apartments — wrote a short list of the homes she would happily raise a family in.
Fourteen years later, we are five partners, two editors, and one very patient photographer. We list fewer homes than we used to, photograph them more slowly, and write about them in our own words.
We do not run an office in London. We do not advertise on portals. We answer the telephone. We would rather not sell you a house than sell you the wrong one.
Our principles
Four ideas we keep returning to.
01
Curation over volume.
We will never list more homes than we can know personally. If we cannot tell you what the back garden smells like in May, we will not list the house.
02
Photography is the argument.
We use one photographer across every home in our collection. The light is consistent. The angles are quiet. You can tell from the photograph whether the house will suit you.
03
Words, not adjectives.
We describe houses the way a friend would. Where the light falls in the morning, where the noise of the A303 fades, which pubs do food.
04
Patience is a service.
A good sale takes as long as it takes. We do not chase fees. We do not push to close. We work with buyers and sellers until the right match appears.
How we work
Quietly, mostly by letter and by telephone.
We don't run a portal, we don't send automatic emails, and we don't have a chatbot. When you enquire about a home, the agent who listed it will reply — usually the same day, occasionally the next morning.
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