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Winner
Buckland House, Oxfordshire
Client
Summerstone Assco SA
Architect
Edmonts of Swindon
Buckland House in Oxfordshire, 1757 by Wood the Younger, has been comprehensively restored for Patrick McNally; when he bought the house it had lain empty for years and was on the English Heritage Buildings at Risk register. Taking on a house of these palatial dimensions, and in that condition, is a daunting challenge, not for the fainthearted, but the scale and consistent quality of the work and the unflashy attention to detail inspire awe: twenty-two student flats removed, twenty-six tons of lead recast and the stonework, ornamental plasterwork and joinery painstakingly conserved by skilled craftsmen, in an unstinting team effort that has reinvigorated a major Georgian country house that had lost its way.
Commended
Sandridge Park, Devon
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