DIRECTORY OF ARCHITECTURAL PRACTICES, PLANNING CONSULTANCIES AND CHARTERED SURVEYORS EXPERIENCED IN HISTORIC/LISTED BUILDING WORK The Organisations he/ow have pah/ tn he included in rhe Directory. Consequently. their appearance .,·houlclnot he taken to imply any endorsement or apprm'al hy the Association SUSSEX Douglas Briggs Partnership 3 The Avenue Chichester PO19 4PZ Tel: 0243 530441 Fax: 0243 530452 ConservationArchitects,Urban Designers and Town Planners. Specialistin handlingdevelopmentin environmentallysensitiveareas or affectingHistoricBuildings. Considerableexperience of public participation,pedestrianisationof Town Centres, re-use and adaptation of redundntbuildings,development masterplans and land portfolioreviews. Establishedpracticalapproach to the design and contract management of new buildingsand the restorationand repairof old structures. WARWICKSHIRE Gilmore Hankey Kirke Ltd 64 Smith Street Warwick CV34 4HU Tel: 0926 402815 Fax: 0926 402716 IGHKI (See our main entry under LONDON) Specialisms include reuse of historic buildings,housing development and maintenance. Conservation area studies and urban design withfeasibility assessments and planningservices. WEST MIDLANDS S T Walker and Partners Architects and Consultants 68 Harborne Park Road Harborne Birmingham 817 0DH Tel: 021-428 4282 Fax: 021-428 3880 Consultants to the NationalTrust, EnglishHeritage, and LocalAuthorities for the repair, consolidation, conservation and reuse of Listed Buildingsand scheduled Ancient Monuments.Strategy reports prepared. Recent Commissions include Attingham Park (NT),Stokesay Castle and Clun Castle (EH),LudlowCastle (Private), Tredegar House and Park, Gwent (Newport Borough Council). WILTSHIRE Robert Butcher The Schoolhouse, Sutton End, Crockerton, Warminster, WIishire BA12 88H. Tel: 0985 846990 Fax: 0985 846990 Building & Paint Consultants for Historic & Traditional Building. Established by Robert Butcher (Founder of Potmolen Paint) a qualified Professional Builder who has specialised in Traditional Buildingfor over 30 years and is a member of SPAB. Robert is the latest in a long line of Robert Butchers' who over the centuries have worked on Traditional and Historic Buildings and also manufactured associated products. YORKSHIRE Wright Associates Stable Yard Chantry Lane Bishopthorpe York Y02 1QF Tel: 0904 707947 Fax: 0904 709928 Practice founded twelveyears ago by Research Fellowin Conservation at Universityof York,to specialise both in new design in Conservation Areas and the archaeological interpretation, preservation and conservation of historic buildingsand monuments. Architectsto YorkArchaeologicalTrust. Consultants to London Docklands Development Corporation.Research reports on Conservation Staffingin LPA'sand design in Conservation Areas for English Heritage. E.E.C. Conservation Award 1990. This Directory provides a service for Conservation Officers with Local Authorities, and others, when they are looking for specialist professional help with their conservation and repair of historic/listed buildings. A standard Entry (Six line information panel plus address details) in four consecutive issues of "Context" at £24.50 per issue costs a total of £98.00 plus VAT. Additional lines may be purchased at £1.50 per line plus VAT per issue i.e. £6.00 plus VAT for four consecutive issues. To be included in the next edition of this Directory or for further information please write or telephone: 42 Context Publishing Department, Hall-McCartney Ltd., PO Box 21, Unit 7, Campus 5, The Business Park, Letchworth, Herts SG6 2JF Tel: 0462-675848 Fax: 0462-679356 BOOKS Burlington all figure fleetingly, the bulk of the work was executed by mason-architects either from the Midlands baroque tradition personified by Francis Smith of Warwick, or from the Brisrol school. Most remain anonymous, but a few, such as the Paty family or Anthony Keck developed extensive practices repeating a limited and conservative but successful repertoire of designs for an inter-related group of patrons. The four main peaks of building activity identified during this period by Kingsley reflect those noted by other writers elsewhere in the country and mirror the pattern of national economic activity. However, an intensely local study such as this has picked up several local surges reflecting improvements in grain prices and growth 111 the prosperity of the local woollen cloth industry. Indeed whilst much of the building activity stemmed from established families remodelling older houses, other work was promoted by local clothiers or Bristol merchants caking up country residence for the first time. Few houses were totally rebuilt, because of the coses involved; Lord Bathurst of Cirencester noted in 1718 char building work is "apt to melt money sometimes". Whereas house design in rhe county tended to lag behind national trends, local landowners were frequently in the vanguard of contemporary garden and garden house design. It is one of the strengths of the book chat this aspect of the country house is very fully considered. Most outstanding were obviously the Duke of Beaufort's radiating and intersecting allees at Badminton, now lost; but elements of Lord Bathursr's forest park and avenues still survive at Cirencester as does Maynard Colchester's now rare water garden of 1696 at Westbury Court. Garden buildings range from the formal creations of William Kent at Badminton to such exotica as Thomas Wright's root house on the same estate. The author concludes his remarks on each house with a note on its present-day fate. It is salutary to find how many are in distress, particularly chose which have experienced a recent period of failed institutional use. Although anathema to Conservation Officers this is perhaps pare of a continuing tradition, fire or impecuniousness having claimed many houses historically but none so badly as Burnt Norton, burned down by ics deranged owner in 1741 at the second attempt. Mr Kingsley is to be thanked and congratulated for bringing us this erudite and entertaining survey of Gloucestershire houses. While we look forward ro his concluding volume che hope must be chat his work will inspire others ro conduce similar rewarding studies in other counties. Alan Taylor CELTIC FRINGES The Historic Gardens of Wales. HMSO for Cadw. 1992, 80pp with many colour and b&w illustrations. ISBN O 11 701578 4. Price £6.95. It is often forgotten chat Wales enjoys as long and distinguished a history of pleasure gardening as England. While such sites as Chirk, Tredegar, Erddig, Bodnant and Powys are well known and count among rhe most outstanding in the British Isles, they stand alongside a wide range of more modest examples of all periods extending in more recent times even inro coastal fringes of Snowdonia. This modest paperback, one of a series by Cadw exploring and interpreting Welsh heritage, presents a brief synopsis of Welsh garden history from Roman times until the present century. Seven chapters explore themes as diverse as Tudor and Stuart formality, Baroque splendour, the Picturesque and Romantic. Each is lavishly illustrated, either with contemporary prints and paintings (showing, incidentally, the wealth of pictorial evidence for study of the subject); or modern archaeological or record photographs. So short a book cannot hope to do full justice to the topic, but within each chapter smaller sub-headings focus on leading personalities, trends, or sites: for example Sir Thomas Hanmer of Beccisfield, the leading Welsh horticulturalist of the late 17th century; the extraordinary gardens at Llanerch; or the sublime landscape at Piercefield. For the general reader for whom this volume is primarily intended, such asides provide a quick and easily digestible insight inro the CONTEXT 40
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