Lady Radnor Award: Extension at Cabbage Cottage, Netton

Type: Award

Cabbage Cottage is an attractive single story thatched cottage, listed, and prominently located by a road junction in the Woodford Valley.  It is partially shielded by a roadside cob wall, which had hidden from public view a previous small extension, of no merit at all.  The judges had no hesitation in agreeing that a new […]

St Francis Church extension, Salisbury

Type: Award

St Francis is a church built in 1939, of a very distinctive non-Gothic appearance, and prominently located on Castle Road.  A need for additional space had led to a decision to create this extension on the very visible south side of the building, rather than trying to tuck it away round the back.  The judges […]

St John’s Place, Lower Bemerton

Type: Award

Redundancy for church buildings, when they have architectural merit, can create serious problems, with appropriate new uses often hard to find. St John’s in Lower Bemerton clearly had that merit, both in its contribution to the street scene and in its characteristic C19th interior, with some fine stone carving.  Conversion of the nave to a […]

The Sawmill Bridge, Wilton House

Type: Award

The early C19th Sawmill Bridge is one of a remarkable collection of historic structures within the grounds of Wilton House.  It had been sorely treated at some point, with a 6′ high wall built along the carriage way over it, to screen traffic from the house.  This left a pedestrian way on the east side, […]

The Kings Arms, Downton

Type: Award

The loss of a village pub can of course be a very contentious affair, but with Downton still having three other pubs surviving, the judges were able to focus on whether the conversion of the former King’s Arms to private houses had been an appropriate treatment of the listed building.  This has a C18th exterior, […]

New Classrooms and Hall Extension at Downton CE Primary School

Type: Commendation

The school had already been extended significantly beyond its original late Victorian core, a building of great distinction.  Responding to ever-increasing pressures on space, this further extension was seen by the judges as a sensible continuation of the now-established approach, which does not attempt to match the decoration of the core building, but uses mainly […]

The Marsh Chequer Community Art Project

Type: Commendation

The Civic Society had previously been involved in publicising and judging a competition to reuse fascia boards at a former antique shop, on the corner of Brown Street and Trinity Street.  The owners had decided to take the boards as an opportunity to mark and celebrate the Marsh chequer, which as well as those two […]