Anderton House
The Landmark Trust is no less keen to preserve good recent architecture than that of past centuries. One high-calibre Modernist house found its way into the portfolio in the early 2000s – the Grade II* Anderton House, built by Peter Aldington and John Craig in 1972. This house boasts clean, horizontal lines, plate glass walls, open plan living spaces and a roof that seems to float above its eaves. By using a frame and a tent-like roof, Aldington and Craig turned a small living room into an apparently endless space.
Yet for all its modernist form, the almost barn-like structure of the Anderton House represents one of the simplest forms of human shelter: its architects explicitly acknowledge their debt to the ancient form of Devon longhouses. For all the shock of the new, the proven forms of the past still have something to tell us, and we jettison them at our peril.
England Culture & Tourism Route © Monika Simon Newbound 2020
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