Last year we launched a new supporters’ scheme, after a generous donor volunteered

£6,000, or 1% of the total restoration cost, for Cowside in the Yorkshire Dales.

Ten others have since joined her as Guardians of Cowside. In recognition of their

commitment, they have enjoyed direct dialogue with the Landmark team about the

Cowside project, through pre-restoration visits, a picnic in Upper Wharefdale

overlooking the building and a meeting at Shottesbrooke to discuss the

restoration scheme.

We are delighted that Astley Castle, the Shore Cottages, and Warder’s Tower now have

Guardians too, people who feel passionately about each building’s future. Guardians

have already contributed over £113,000 to our projects, which urgently need such

demonstrations of commitment. We are currently drawing up the 2009 Guardians

programme; to be part of it, please contact Anna Gordon on 01628 512127.

The Landmark TrustShottesbrooke Maidenhead Berkshire SL6 3SW

Bookings 01628 825925 Office 01628 825920 Website www.landmarktrust.org.uk Charity registered in England & Wales 243312 and Scotland SC039205

Landmark France – an entente cordialeWe continue to make steady progress in our discussions with le Conservatoire du

littoral, our partner in a collaboration that we hope will establish Landmark in France.

We have visited a number of their buildings and now have a shortlist of potential

lead projects that would make good Landmarks. Meanwhile we have benefited from

invaluable pro bono legal advice from the Paris office of the international law firm,

Lovells, and will imminently sign the legal agreements necessary for the partnership

between our two organisations.

Guardians update

The Shore Cottages, Caithness

Photography

competition

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Culloden Tower, North Yorkshire

The Landmark Trust is the charity

partner of a new photography

competition, which aims to find the

best images of Britain today. The

DK Eyewitness Travel Guides

Photography Competition, in

partnership with photobox.co.uk

and Waterstone's, invites all keen

photographers to enter by 31 May

2009. For every photograph

uploaded, DK Eyewitness Travel will

donate 10p to the Landmark Trust.

The overall winner will not only

have their photo published on the

cover of the 2010 DK Great Britain

Guide, but will also win £1,500 of

Landmark gift vouchers, plus runner

up prizes including photobox.co.uk

vouchers and DK Eyewitness Travel

Guides. To find out more visit the

Landmark website.

Printed on an FSC certified mixed sources paper containing

50% recovered waste and 50% virgin fibre.

The LandmarkSpring RaffleThere is still time to win the

Landmark holiday of your dreams,

while also supporting our work, by

entering our 2009 Spring Raffle,

online or by post. Help us to make

this our most successful raffle ever.

The first prize is £3,000 towards

the bookings of your choice. The

closing date is 30 April 2009.

Handbook

The 23rd edition of the Landmark Trust Handbook,features 190 historic buildings available to stay in– follies, castles, towers, banqueting houses,cottages and other unusual buildings. Throughthe building entries and a collection of articles,the Handbook traces our architectural heritagefrom the 12th to the 20th century.

The 232-page Handbook costs just £10 pluspostage and packing. The Handbook cost isrefundable against your first booking or you may wish to use the refund voucher to make a donation to support Landmark’s work inrescuing historic buildings.

Residents of USA and Canada can order a copyfor US $28 from Landmark USA, 707 KiplingRoad, Dummerston, Vermont 05301, USA. Tel: 802-254-6868.

Order your Handbook

• Online at www.landmarktrust.org.uk

• Booking Office on 01628 825925

• Or complete the form overleaf andreturn it to The Landmark Trust,Shottesbrooke, Maidenhead,Berkshire SL6 3SW

Online reservations

The website is being updated to provide onlinesearches and reservations. We are aiming tointroduce this service during 2009.

The best of British

Landmark News

Robin Hood’s Hut, Somerset

The Landmark Trust newsletter Issued twice yearly Spring 2009

The Landmark Trust is

a building preservation

charity that rescues historic

buildings at risk for

everyone to enjoy, giving

them a new life by letting

them for inspiring holidays.

Inside

Henry VIII’s Quincentenary year

Take a Tour of Britain

Work begins atAstley Castle

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All the newspapers are telling us that people are deciding to holiday at home this year

to enjoy the best that Britain can offer, and as I write this in mid-February our Booking

Office is buzzing. Landmarkers, clearly, are voting with their feet. Landmarks, after all,

combine a special experience with value – for example, over 47% of our buildings can be

booked for a total amount which equates to less than £15 per person per night at the

quieter times of the year, and the average figure across all prices throughout the year is

still only £38.

So, forget the doom and gloom outside for a while, whether for a recharging

weekend, special event, or family holiday. Replenish your spirits with the luxury of

simplicity, handmade glass, brick and oak, the scent of beeswax, the fascination of

history and the calming silence of ancient places. We hope, even more than usual,

that a stay in a Landmark this year will help you to return refreshed to the fray for

whatever this year may bring.

Peter Pearce, Director

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Staying in Landmarks

Booking Office 01628 825925 Monday to Friday 9am - 6pm and Saturday 10am - 4pm

Henry VIII’sQuincentenary Year

The Georgian House, Hampton Court Palace

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2009 is the 500th anniversary of the coronation of one of our most colourful monarchs.

Henry VIII was crowned, aged just 17, on 24 June 1509. A second son, he trained

initially for the Church until his brother Arthur’s death in 1502 made him heir to the

throne. Henry’s reign had an impact on our character as a nation that persists today and

his career can be traced through Landmark’s portfolio of buildings.

Sir William Pelham of Laughton Place was a companion of Henry’s through the golden

early years of the reign, accompanying his sovereign to the Field of the Cloth of Gold in

France in 1520. The original inhabitants of Fish Court at Hampton Court Palace would

have created fine dishes for both Henry and Cardinal Wolsey, from whom the King

wrested Hampton Court in 1525. Wolsey survived as Henry’s Lord Chancellor until

1529, when he was arrested for high treason

at Cawood Castle. His successor, Thomas

Cromwell, proved more amenable in

executing Henry’s religious policies, resulting

in the Break from Rome and the Dissolution

of the Monasteries (Woodspring Priory,

Wilmington Priory, Warden Abbey,

Bromfield Priory Gatehouse). The high

drama of Henry’s reign continues to fascinate

today, making 2009 the ideal year to

experience living in a Tudor Landmark.Cawood Castle, North Yorkshire

40th Anniversaryof Landmark on LundyA lusty black brow’d girl with

forehead broad and high

That often had the sea gods

bewitched with her eye.

This was how Michael Drayton

personified Lundy in 1613.

More than 300 years later in

September 1969, Landmark signed

a lease on the island with the

National Trust, who had acquired

Lundy from the Harmans through

the generosity of Sir Jack Hayward.

Landmark’s founder, Sir John

Smith set as our goal that Lundy

should ‘stand on its own two feet,

with genuine jobs and livelihoods

for everybody’ and be kept ‘a

tranquil, solid and unaffected island

with a genuine life of its own

which visitors can share’.

40 years on, that goal remains our

touchstone. Major works to the

access road will be completed in

2009 thanks to the generosity of

everyone who responded to our

appeal. Landmark looks forward

with confidence to tackling Lundy’s

future challenges and giving many

people the opportunity to discover

this very special place.

The Old Light, Lundy

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We are delighted to announce a new Landmark project in Suffolk,

Cavendish Hall near Clare. It comes to us through the generosity of the

executors of Mrs Pamela Matthews, who died in 2005. Cavendish Hall is

an elegant, early Regency villa of great charm that Mrs Matthews had

known and loved as a girl. When she married Thomas Matthews, managing

editor of Time magazine, he bought it for her as a wedding present. This

handsome, double-fronted house is surrounded by a small wooded park in

rolling countryside; it is the sort of house Miss Elizabeth Bennet from

Pride and Prejudice might have lived in. Some refurbishment is needed (also

generously provided for by Mrs Matthews’ estate) to offer a Landmark for

10-12 people. We expect to complete work in 2009.

You can now make donations online securely and quickly at www.landmarktrust.org.uk

Brick repairs at Queen Anne’s SummerhouseWork is well underway on Queen Anne’s Summerhouse at Old Warden in Bedfordshire. The brickwork team, led by

master bricklayer Emma Simpson, is painstakingly repairing the brickwork, helped by two trainees working under the

Traditional Building Skills Bursary Scheme.

This 1714 folly was built of the finest quality gauged brickwork, rubbed to a gentle

curve and finely pointed with white lime putty. Replacement bricks have been

specially made by the Bulmer Brick & Tile Company from a fine, sandy clay fired at

a low temperature, to match the colour and texture of the originals. The bricks are

cut, and then rubbed down on site to create a precise edge, to enable the fine joints

between the courses.

At the end of March Queen Anne’s Summerhouse will welcome groups of children

from five local schools for educational activities based on the building, both on site and

in the classroom, funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund. The children’s work will then

be exhibited locally and on the Landmark Trust website. Queen Anne’s Summerhouse

will open as a Landmark in 2009. Bookings will open in the summer.Emma Simpson laying out brickwork at

Queen Anne’s Summerhouse, Bedfordshire

Cavendish Hall, Suffolk

Cavendish Hall: agenerous bequest

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Signature Date

Thank you to everyone who donated to our

appeal for Warder’s Tower, a Grade II*

late-Regency castellated cottage built for

the estate gamekeeper. With help too from

the Country Houses Foundation and

Staffordshire County Council, we have

now raised £229,009 towards the

restoration of this romantic wooded

hideaway in Greenway Bank Country Park.

Unfortunately the fate of Warder’s Tower

still hangs very much in the balance, and

it desperately needs further help.

Warder’s Tower, Staffordshire

Warder’s Towerappeal under way

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3Availability List is updated daily at www.landmarktrust.org.uk Email bookings@landmarktrust.org.uk

FiveLandmarksfor childrenAlton Station

Perfect for train enthusiasts old

and young, this former station

is ideal for apprentice station

masters. Alton Towers is just

a short puff up the hill too.

Coombe

With eight Landmarks to

choose from, there is no

difficulty picking one to match

your child’s age and interests.

Coombe is the perfect base for

discovering nature, and the rock-

pools at nearby Duckpool are

second to none.

Paxton’s Tower Lodge

This humble cottage has an

attic room ideal for children

and there's the storybook tower

to play in within sight.

Iron Bridge House

At the historical heart of the

industrial revolution, there is no

better place to bring history alive.

Ironbridge is surrounded by

child-friendly museums including

Blists Hill Victorian Town.

Stogursey Castle

Any budding knights or

princesses can create their own

fairytales within the moated site

of this old castle. There’s even

enough safe space outside for

jousting.

The Scottish Landmarks represent some

of our most picturesque buildings in the

best scenery. Close reading of the Price

List reveals that they also offer excellent

value for money. Prices per person per

night start at just £7 for a mid-week

break in January for Ascog House on

the Isle of Bute (£32pppn for mid-week

in August) or Tangy Mill on the Mull of

Kintyre (£31pppn in August). You can

book Auchinleck House for a country

house weekend for just £12 per person a

night in January (£43 in August) or

romantic Rosslyn Castle just outside

Edinburgh for the same good value. Auchinleck House, Ayrshire

Great value in Scotland

The Landmark Trust will be exhibiting at VisitBritain’s Best of Britain & Ireland

exhibition and the CLA Game Fair this year. The Best of Britain & Ireland show

runs on Saturday 28 and Sunday 29 March in the ExCel Centre, London Docklands.

On both days, our Director, Peter Pearce will be giving a talk on Landmark and its

work. The CLA Game Fair runs from Friday 24 to Sunday 26 July at Belvoir Castle

in Leicestershire. We hope to see you there.

Come and meet us

Holidays inTowers

Clavell Tower, Dorset

Paxton’s Tower Lodge, Carmarthenshire

Forward bookings for the newly completed

Clavell Tower are currently exceeding all

our expectations. Left isolated in exposed

positions without modern services, towers

are just the kind of marginal buildings that

need Landmark’s help for a new life and

purpose. They also make fine and

romantic spots to spend a holiday. Luckily,

there are plenty of other towers available

for Landmarkers seeking a holiday in a

lofty lookout – Freston Tower, Luttrell’s

Tower, Nicolle Tower and Peters Tower

all look out over the sea, while Beckford’s

Tower, Culloden Tower, Laughton Place

and Prospect Tower offer views over

more verdant scenes.

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3 Ingestre‘A very fine wilderness with

many large walks of a great

length’

(Celia Fiennes, 1698)

Ingestre PavilionCapability Brown would

redesign the park at Ingestre in

1756. This elegant pavilion,

enhanced for Landmark by

Philip Jebb, remains a fine spot

in classic English parkland.

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Plan your own Grand Tour of

2 Grasmere‘this little unsuspected

paradise..all is peace, rusticity…’

(Thomas Gray, 1769)

HowthwaiteHowthwaite’s bright and airy

rooms overlook Dove Cottage,

where Wordsworth welcomed

his friends and where they

composed much of their poetry,

inspiring others to seek out the

beauties of the Lake District.

5 Penzance‘Pensands is rightly named being

sands all about it…it looked soe

snugg and warme’

(Celia Fiennes, 1698)

The Egyptian HouseA rare and noble survivor of a

style in vogue after Napoleon’s

Egyptian campaign of 1798,

the house is now let as three

apartments.

4 Wye Valley‘a more pleasing retreat could

not easily be found…a very

inchanting piece of scenery’

(William Gilpin, 1770)

Clytha CastleAs writers like Gilpin

discovered the joys of our

native scenery, landowners such

as William Jones embellished it

still further with imaginative

buildings like this one.

1 Saddell Castle‘a perfect specimen of the

accommodation furnished by one

of our most ancient Scottish

baronial residences’

(William Dobie, 1833)

Saddell EstateThe Landmarks at Saddell Bay

span the centuries before and

after the Union. Here are six

buildings of all sizes, styles and

purposes from which to explore

Scottish scenery at its finest.

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A lot has been written in

recent months about the

sense in staying in Britain

for our holidays this year –

but of course many of us

choose anyway to stay

within these shores. We are

in good company in this,

since for centuries travels

round the British Islands

have inspired some of our

finest writers and

commentators. Writers like

Simon Jenkins travelling the

land in our own day have

found, like John Leland in

the 1540s, ‘a hole worlde of

thinges very memorable’

waiting to be discovered on

our own doorstep.

There are travel guides

through time and

topography to suit every

period and area of interest,

and many are found in our

buildings. The fun comes

not just in their depictions

of the scene, but in

comparing the descriptions

of the scene and appreciation

of it with our own. If your

taste is for monastic sites

and Tudor England, take

John Leland’s Itineraries as

your guide; for a glimpse

of Jacobean whimsy, trace

Michael Drayton’s

personifications of rivers in

his epic work, Poly-Olbion;

for a rare female writer turn

to Celia Fiennes’ travels

through late Stuart England.

In visiting Landmarks, there is

constant delight in finding yourself

led to a hitherto unknown corner of

Britain: we feel uplifted and full of

affection for our native soil.

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ur of Landmarks 2009 Open Days

Landmark Open Days are open to

all and admission is free. Please

check our website for the latest

information and opening times.

Anderton House, DevonSaturday 12 and Sunday 13 September

Auchinleck House, AyrshireSunday 6 September

Clavell Tower, Dorset Saturday 12 and Sunday 13 September

Dolbelydr, Denbighshire Tuesday 28 April to Friday 1 May*Friday 11 to Tuesday 15 September*

Freston Tower, SuffolkTuesday 12 to Friday 15 May*Friday 11 to Tuesday 15 September*

The Grange, Kent Friday 5 to Monday 8 June*Friday 11 to Tuesday 15 September*

Morpeth Castle, NorthumberlandSunday 13 September

Old Campden House,GloucestershireTuesday 28 April to Friday 1 May*Friday 11 to Tuesday 15 September*

Peake's House, EssexSaturday 12 and Sunday 13 September

The Ruin, North YorkshireSaturday 12 and Sunday 13 September

Wilmington Priory, East SussexFriday 27 to Monday 30 March*Friday 11 to Tuesday 15 September*

*On the final Open Day theLandmark will only be open in the morning from 10am to 1pm.

The Ruin, North Yorkshire

8 Colchester‘the whole town is employ’d in

spinning…a thriving place

by the substantiall houses’

(Celia Fiennes, 1698)

Peake’s HouseAs Colchester was a centre for

the cloth trade, these fine Tudor

cottages, now a single house,

probably belonged to weavers,

the long windows designed to

give light to the looms.

10 Robin Hood’s Bay‘a little fishing settlement of

twenty boats…with a haven or

bay a mile long.

( John Leland, c1540)

The PigstyInspired by his own Grand Tour,

did Squire Barry hope to breed

more intelligent pigs in this

Ionic Temple? To muse upon, as

you enjoy the view across to the

sea at Robin Hood’s Bay.

6 Endsleigh‘We admire Endsleigh exceedingly

for its natural beauties…’

( J C Loudon, 1842)

Pond Cottage and Swiss Cottage (pictured above)

The streams and cascades of the

gardens at Endsleigh remain one

of the best examples of English

Picturesque. Rustic Pond Cottage

lies at their heart, while Swiss

Cottage surveys a view not

bettered in Europe.

11 Roslin ‘It’ll never do to go to bed on such a lovely

morning as this, let’s awa’ to Roslin Castle.’

(Robbie Burns, 1787 - Burns’ 250th

anniversary this year)

Rosslyn Castle and Collegehill HouseRosslyn Castle sits dramatically on a

rocky outcrop rising steeply from the

River Esk, while Collegehill House is next

to the lovely Rosslyn Chapel – all loved

by travellers for centuries.

9 Stretham‘Few Fenland corners are as

evocative as Stretham…’

(Simon Jenkins, 2003)

Stoker’s CottageIn easy reach of Cambridge and

Ely, this former toll house later

housed the stoker for Stretham Old

Engine next door, which kept the

fenland floods at bay. There are

good waterways to discover on foot,

beneath the wide fenland skies.

7 Salisbury ‘the Cathedral…is esteemed the

finest in England in all respects.’

(Celia Fiennes, c1690)

The WardrobeAt The Wardrobe you will feel

a privileged part of life at the

heart of a cathedral Close, with

your own private view, by day

and night, of one of the finest

exemplars anywhere of the

medieval mason’s art.

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Projects & Restoration

In October, thanks to a generous emergency works grant from English Heritage and a

contribution from the Arbury Estate, we began Phase I of our project to bring life back to

Astley Castle. Much of this ancient structure is now beyond repair, but the Landmark

scheme will give what can be saved new purpose by incorporating the best of modern

design to stabilise remaining fabric and create Landmark accommodation within it.

Phase I involves the clearance of fallen rubble, careful taking down of areas that cannot be

saved and consolidation of what is salvageable. For the first time in years, the castle can be

carefully analysed. Former doors, windows and hearths have been revealed. We can save

more of the central spine wall than expected and will be able to salvage some of the vice

tower as a stairwell. Such discoveries require the architectural scheme to evolve gently to

take account of them, and our team of surveyors, structural engineer, quantity surveyor,

archaeologist and project manager have been working with

the architects to achieve solutions that mesh best practice

in conservation with the vision for the new build.

In February, we submitted our Stage II application to the

Heritage Lottery Fund for £1.467 million, towards a total

project cost of £2.175 million. We are very grateful for

generous donations from major private donors and

everyone who has given to our appeal. We still have

£101,000 left to raise (only 5%) for this exciting project to

be fully funded so that work can continue if, as we

hope, we get a positive decision from the HLF in June.

6 To make a donation to support our work and ensure historic buildings have a secure future call 01628 825920

Astley Castle, Warwickshire

Work begins at Astley Castle

We have just heard that a very

generous legacy has been left

towards the restoration of

Cowside from the estate of Mrs

Sylvia Chapman. We are

delighted to announce that this

has enabled us to complete the

fundraising for Cowside a year

ahead of schedule and that we

can start the restoration work

earlier than planned. We are

most grateful for such a

generous gift.

Our Cowside appeal prompted

an unprecedented response from

our supporters and has led to the

creation of a new supporters’

programme, the Guardians. It is

with thanks to everyone who has

contributed to the Cowside

appeal that the building’s future

is now secure.

Stop press -Cowside

Astley Castle, Warwickshire

A milestonefor LandmarkPatrons Landmark Patrons have now

contributed almost £1.2 million

to our work. This year, over 100

of you have given £1,000 (£83 a

month by direct debit), crucial

help with funding shortfalls,

emergency repairs and unlocking

matching funds. Your support has

never been more vital and we are

enormously grateful.

Patrons enjoy greater involvement

in Landmark’s work through pre-

restoration inspections and hard

hat visits, as well as early booking

privileges. To find out more,

please visit the website or contact

Linda Millard on 01628 825920.

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Staying in Landmarks

Booking Office 01628 825925 Monday to Friday 9am - 6pm and Saturday 10am - 4pm

Henry VIII’sQuincentenary Year

The Georgian House, Hampton Court Palace

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2009 is the 500th anniversary of the coronation of one of our most colourful monarchs.

Henry VIII was crowned, aged just 17, on 24 June 1509. A second son, he trained

initially for the Church until his brother Arthur’s death in 1502 made him heir to the

throne. Henry’s reign had an impact on our character as a nation that persists today and

his career can be traced through Landmark’s portfolio of buildings.

Sir William Pelham of Laughton Place was a companion of Henry’s through the golden

early years of the reign, accompanying his sovereign to the Field of the Cloth of Gold in

France in 1520. The original inhabitants of Fish Court at Hampton Court Palace would

have created fine dishes for both Henry and Cardinal Wolsey, from whom the King

wrested Hampton Court in 1525. Wolsey survived as Henry’s Lord Chancellor until

1529, when he was arrested for high treason

at Cawood Castle. His successor, Thomas

Cromwell, proved more amenable in

executing Henry’s religious policies, resulting

in the Break from Rome and the Dissolution

of the Monasteries (Woodspring Priory,

Wilmington Priory, Warden Abbey,

Bromfield Priory Gatehouse). The high

drama of Henry’s reign continues to fascinate

today, making 2009 the ideal year to

experience living in a Tudor Landmark.Cawood Castle, North Yorkshire

40th Anniversaryof Landmark on LundyA lusty black brow’d girl with

forehead broad and high

That often had the sea gods

bewitched with her eye.

This was how Michael Drayton

personified Lundy in 1613.

More than 300 years later in

September 1969, Landmark signed

a lease on the island with the

National Trust, who had acquired

Lundy from the Harmans through

the generosity of Sir Jack Hayward.

Landmark’s founder, Sir John

Smith set as our goal that Lundy

should ‘stand on its own two feet,

with genuine jobs and livelihoods

for everybody’ and be kept ‘a

tranquil, solid and unaffected island

with a genuine life of its own

which visitors can share’.

40 years on, that goal remains our

touchstone. Major works to the

access road will be completed in

2009 thanks to the generosity of

everyone who responded to our

appeal. Landmark looks forward

with confidence to tackling Lundy’s

future challenges and giving many

people the opportunity to discover

this very special place.

The Old Light, Lundy

7

We are delighted to announce a new Landmark project in Suffolk,

Cavendish Hall near Clare. It comes to us through the generosity of the

executors of Mrs Pamela Matthews, who died in 2005. Cavendish Hall is

an elegant, early Regency villa of great charm that Mrs Matthews had

known and loved as a girl. When she married Thomas Matthews, managing

editor of Time magazine, he bought it for her as a wedding present. This

handsome, double-fronted house is surrounded by a small wooded park in

rolling countryside; it is the sort of house Miss Elizabeth Bennet from

Pride and Prejudice might have lived in. Some refurbishment is needed (also

generously provided for by Mrs Matthews’ estate) to offer a Landmark for

10-12 people. We expect to complete work in 2009.

You can now make donations online securely and quickly at www.landmarktrust.org.uk

Brick repairs at Queen Anne’s SummerhouseWork is well underway on Queen Anne’s Summerhouse at Old Warden in Bedfordshire. The brickwork team, led by

master bricklayer Emma Simpson, is painstakingly repairing the brickwork, helped by two trainees working under the

Traditional Building Skills Bursary Scheme.

This 1714 folly was built of the finest quality gauged brickwork, rubbed to a gentle

curve and finely pointed with white lime putty. Replacement bricks have been

specially made by the Bulmer Brick & Tile Company from a fine, sandy clay fired at

a low temperature, to match the colour and texture of the originals. The bricks are

cut, and then rubbed down on site to create a precise edge, to enable the fine joints

between the courses.

At the end of March Queen Anne’s Summerhouse will welcome groups of children

from five local schools for educational activities based on the building, both on site and

in the classroom, funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund. The children’s work will then

be exhibited locally and on the Landmark Trust website. Queen Anne’s Summerhouse

will open as a Landmark in 2009. Bookings will open in the summer.Emma Simpson laying out brickwork at

Queen Anne’s Summerhouse, Bedfordshire

Cavendish Hall, Suffolk

Cavendish Hall: agenerous bequest

Order yourHandbookTo order a Handbook or make a donation to help usrescue buildings at risk, please complete the formbelow, telephone the Booking Office or go online.

The Handbook costs £10 plus postage and packing: • £3 UK second class post • £5 UK first class post• £10 to Europe and rest of the world

(USA and Canada see overleaf)

Please send me Handbook(s) £

Postage and packing (per item) £

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Thank you to everyone who donated to our

appeal for Warder’s Tower, a Grade II*

late-Regency castellated cottage built for

the estate gamekeeper. With help too from

the Country Houses Foundation and

Staffordshire County Council, we have

now raised £229,009 towards the

restoration of this romantic wooded

hideaway in Greenway Bank Country Park.

Unfortunately the fate of Warder’s Tower

still hangs very much in the balance, and

it desperately needs further help.

Warder’s Tower, Staffordshire

Warder’s Towerappeal under way

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Last year we launched a new supporters’ scheme, after a generous donor volunteered

£6,000, or 1% of the total restoration cost, for Cowside in the Yorkshire Dales.

Ten others have since joined her as Guardians of Cowside. In recognition of their

commitment, they have enjoyed direct dialogue with the Landmark team about the

Cowside project, through pre-restoration visits, a picnic in Upper Wharefdale

overlooking the building and a meeting at Shottesbrooke to discuss the

restoration scheme.

We are delighted that Astley Castle, the Shore Cottages, and Warder’s Tower now have

Guardians too, people who feel passionately about each building’s future. Guardians

have already contributed over £113,000 to our projects, which urgently need such

demonstrations of commitment. We are currently drawing up the 2009 Guardians

programme; to be part of it, please contact Anna Gordon on 01628 512127.

The Landmark TrustShottesbrooke Maidenhead Berkshire SL6 3SW

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Landmark France – an entente cordialeWe continue to make steady progress in our discussions with le Conservatoire du

littoral, our partner in a collaboration that we hope will establish Landmark in France.

We have visited a number of their buildings and now have a shortlist of potential

lead projects that would make good Landmarks. Meanwhile we have benefited from

invaluable pro bono legal advice from the Paris office of the international law firm,

Lovells, and will imminently sign the legal agreements necessary for the partnership

between our two organisations.

Guardians update

The Shore Cottages, Caithness

Photography

competition

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Culloden Tower, North Yorkshire

The Landmark Trust is the charity

partner of a new photography

competition, which aims to find the

best images of Britain today. The

DK Eyewitness Travel Guides

Photography Competition, in

partnership with photobox.co.uk

and Waterstone's, invites all keen

photographers to enter by 31 May

2009. For every photograph

uploaded, DK Eyewitness Travel will

donate 10p to the Landmark Trust.

The overall winner will not only

have their photo published on the

cover of the 2010 DK Great Britain

Guide, but will also win £1,500 of

Landmark gift vouchers, plus runner

up prizes including photobox.co.uk

vouchers and DK Eyewitness Travel

Guides. To find out more visit the

Landmark website.

Printed on an FSC certified mixed sources paper containing

50% recovered waste and 50% virgin fibre.

The LandmarkSpring RaffleThere is still time to win the

Landmark holiday of your dreams,

while also supporting our work, by

entering our 2009 Spring Raffle,

online or by post. Help us to make

this our most successful raffle ever.

The first prize is £3,000 towards

the bookings of your choice. The

closing date is 30 April 2009.

Handbook

The 23rd edition of the Landmark Trust Handbook,features 190 historic buildings available to stay in– follies, castles, towers, banqueting houses,cottages and other unusual buildings. Throughthe building entries and a collection of articles,the Handbook traces our architectural heritagefrom the 12th to the 20th century.

The 232-page Handbook costs just £10 pluspostage and packing. The Handbook cost isrefundable against your first booking or you may wish to use the refund voucher to make a donation to support Landmark’s work inrescuing historic buildings.

Residents of USA and Canada can order a copyfor US $28 from Landmark USA, 707 KiplingRoad, Dummerston, Vermont 05301, USA. Tel: 802-254-6868.

Order your Handbook

• Online at www.landmarktrust.org.uk

• Booking Office on 01628 825925

• Or complete the form overleaf andreturn it to The Landmark Trust,Shottesbrooke, Maidenhead,Berkshire SL6 3SW

Online reservations

The website is being updated to provide onlinesearches and reservations. We are aiming tointroduce this service during 2009.

The best of British

Landmark News

Robin Hood’s Hut, Somerset

The Landmark Trust newsletter Issued twice yearly Spring 2009

The Landmark Trust is

a building preservation

charity that rescues historic

buildings at risk for

everyone to enjoy, giving

them a new life by letting

them for inspiring holidays.

Inside

Henry VIII’s Quincentenary year

Take a Tour of Britain

Work begins atAstley Castle

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All the newspapers are telling us that people are deciding to holiday at home this year

to enjoy the best that Britain can offer, and as I write this in mid-February our Booking

Office is buzzing. Landmarkers, clearly, are voting with their feet. Landmarks, after all,

combine a special experience with value – for example, over 47% of our buildings can be

booked for a total amount which equates to less than £15 per person per night at the

quieter times of the year, and the average figure across all prices throughout the year is

still only £38.

So, forget the doom and gloom outside for a while, whether for a recharging

weekend, special event, or family holiday. Replenish your spirits with the luxury of

simplicity, handmade glass, brick and oak, the scent of beeswax, the fascination of

history and the calming silence of ancient places. We hope, even more than usual,

that a stay in a Landmark this year will help you to return refreshed to the fray for

whatever this year may bring.

Peter Pearce, Director

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