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58. House for Essex

We made our pilgrimage to ‘Julie’s House’ most commonly known as House for Essex. A jewel like chapel sitting within a green pasture with a background of the River Stour and an industrial horizon of Essex meets Suffolk. This building designed by FAT Architecture in collaboration with artist Grayson Perry is a homage to the fictional ‘Essex Gal’ character of Julie.

56. Astley Castle

The ruin was restored by Witherford Watson Mann for client the Landmark Trust. Destroyed by a fire in 1978, the original building comprised of various elements and extensions dating back from the 13th century. Witherford Watson Mann’s approach was to intervene minimally with new insertions whilst maintaining a memory of what had been there before. The project won the Stirling Prize in 2013.

41. Fulham Palace House & Garden

The SaLADS visited the grade II listed medieval and Tudor palace.

38. Kenneth Armitage House

Kenneth lived and worked at Avonmore Road from 1959 until his death in 2002, it was the backdrop for his greatest professional achievements. Since 2005, occupancy of the house and studio has been awarded every two years to a different sculptor under a Fellowship scheme that Armitage himself initiated.

33. Strawberry Hill House

The SaLADS took a trip to Horace Walpole's Gothic Revival villa in Twickenham.

28. Turn End

Turn End is one of three houses designed and built in the 1960s by architect Peter Aldington in the village of Haddenham, Buckinghamshire.

17. Ham House

On a rainy day, a core group of Salads made the journey out of central London to Ham in Richmond to explore the atmospheric Ham House and Gardens set on the banks of the river Thames.

8. The Homewood, Esher

The SaLADS took a trip to The Homewood, a modernist house in Esher, Surrey. Designed by architect Patrick Gwynne for his parents, The Homewood was given by Gwynne to the National Trust in 1999.

4. Leighton House

We visited Leighton House Museum in January 2014. This majestic building sits on a pretty residential street in leafy Kensington. The museum is the former home of the Victorian artist Lord Frederick Leighton and now displays artworks by Leighton and other pieces he collected.

1. Red House

Completed in 1860 by William Morris' architect and collaborator Phillip Webb the Red house was intended to be a haven for cutting edge artists, auters and their muses in the midst of the green fields of Kent.