Wells

NOTES: The main house at Rousdon was by George for Sir Henry William Peek and built 1874-1883, but he also designed the stables and lodges (1873), farm buildings (1874) and schools (1876) for the estate.

NOTES: The Elan Valley scheme was a project to supply clean water to Birmingham, some 20 miles away. The proposal was to dam the Elan and Caerwen rivers and originally three dams were constructed in Elan Valley by engineers Gray and Mansergh between 1893-1904. These comprised the Caban Coch with Garreg-ddu, Pen-y-garreg and Craig Coch dams. Three more were proposed in the Caerwen Valley, but postponed owing to the Second World War and with improvements to materials and engineering meant a much larger concrete dam could be built higher up the valley (the Caerwen dam officially opened by Queen Elizabeth II in 1952).

NOTES: Philip Webb designed the building for his friend the artist William Morris, but Morris was responsible for the interior decoration.

NOTES: Philip Webb designed the building for his friend the artist William Morris, but Morris was responsible for the interior decoration. See RIBA155628 for a colour version of this image.

NOTES: Philip Webb designed the building for his friend the artist William Morris, but Morris was responsible for the interior decoration. See RIBA155629 for a colour version of this image.

NOTES: This drawing is numbered XIII/13 in the Burlington-Devonshire Collection.