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“What a diversity of projects confronted us! They ranged in scale from a single window in King’s Lynn to a private nature reserve in the Brecks, and in character from a restored medieval barn to a brand-new ‘earth-sheltered’ house. Then there was the variety of materials: flint, clunch, carrstone, brick, render, glass, metal, and – perhaps increasingly today – timber in a variety of ‘sustainable’ species. There was even a converted barn with a wall of straw bales. We visited a wide variety of building types: forges, railway stations and windmills converted to dwellings; restored glasshouses, new glasshouses, public buildings, museums, and modest extensions. There is poetry in excellent design and as W.H. Auden once said, it is ‘a poet’s hope: to be, like some valley cheese, local, but prized elsewhere!’”
- David Thompson RIBA, LSI Architects. Judge 1997-2004
The Campaign to Protect Rural England exists to promote the beauty, tranquillity and diversity of rural England by encouraging the sustainable use of land and other natural resources in town and country.