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Ptolemy Dean Architects

Calvert’s Buildings , 52D Borough High Street , LONDON , SE1 1XN , United Kingdom

These small projects for the National Trust are all new visitor reception structures or shelters. They draw on a common theme of using generally oak construction or materials salvaged from site, such as clay peg tiles. Clandon Park (Surrey) is a simple ?primitive hut? made of estate oak which also acts as a lodge to the driveway of the house. Its gable end accomodates the clock from the stables block (demolished in the 1960?s). Claydon Park?s (Bucks) octagonal building is sited on the historic location of the front door to the original house, which is now just a third of its original size. The front door lead to an octagonal hall, and became this building?s plan form. The half glazed and half solid shelter at Grey?s Court (Oxon) provides a simple contemporary reinterpretation of a glasshouse and potting shed, while more historically accurate templates were used to provide the new covered seats at William Kent?s famous gardens at Claremont (Surrey), and the new door for Mussenden Temple at Downhill (Northern Ireland).