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SMALL
PROJECTS
Mews House, Barnes, London
Bat House and Visitor Centre, London
Dromore lodge, Dromore Castle Estate,
Co. Limerick
Pierse Cottage, Rosroe, Connemara,
Ireland
Rose Lawn grade II House, Worcester
Lafon de Pepicou, Monpazier,
Dordogne, France
Folly/Communications Tower,
Rushmore Estate, Dorset
Restaurant ‘Le Delice’, Chamonix,
France
Outreach Maternity CLinic, Rwanda
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at the end of kilometre long vista rising from King John’s
House, the principal house on the Rushmore Estate. It arose from
a need to provide a better police communication system requiring
five steel masts 17 metres high on this high ground to the Cranbourne
Chase Area of Outstanding Beauty. This was not acceptable in both
an AONB and a grade II* historic park and garden (The Larmer Tree
Gardens were designed in the 19th century by the then estate owner
General Augustus Pitt Rivers using Indian building acquired by the
General). However the estate and local authorities agreed to bow
to the need if the masts could be incorporated into a folly. The
design is therefore in an Indian Mogul style with one large and
four small copper domes whose finials comprise the exposed tips
of the 17 metre high radio masts. Materials comprise limestone panels/
detailing with red ochre lime washed walls. |
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