As well as repairing the windmill with its 3rd floor chapel, new pop-up roof extensions to the outbuildings open the axial view to both windmills and a new building shrouds and protects fragments of the original granary to create a new music performance space.
“Jack Windmill presents a refreshingly non-hierarchical approach to heritage; one that is more interested in its progress as a story than resurrecting what once was.”
JON ASTBURY, THE AJ, NOVEMBER 2017
“This project is exemplary in its approach to enhancing an existing context. The careful integration of the granary within the new wing is inspired.”
CITATION FROM RIBA AWARDS (2017) JURY
“We’ve loved working with Featherstone Young to build a new family home. Living there, we are so aware of the history of the windmill and granary, and the importance of Jack alongside sister windmill Jill to the local community. We’re proud of the way the new buildings preserve and enhance this historic local landmark, where people have lived and worked since the 19th century.”
CLAIRE MAUGHAM, OWNER OF JACK WINDMILL
“The inspired re-imagining of the group of buildings by the architects Featherstone Young is the result of their early involvement in the heritage aspects of the project, and their commitment to understanding the existing group of buildings, their significance and their place in the landscape.“
MAGGIE HENDERSON, HB ARCHAEOLOGY AND CONSERVATION LTD
“The sensitive restoration of a Sussex Downs landmark windmill and transformation of adjacent buildings into an accommodation complex creates a graceful scheme, exemplary in its husbandry of resources.“
VERONICA SIMPSON, BLUEPRINT
AWARDS
RIBA Award, 2017
RIBA Conservation Award, 2017
Civic Trust National Award, 2017
Sussex Trust Heritage Award, 2017
ARTICLES
Country Life, September 2019, A View from the Downs, READ HERE
Sunday Times, 11 February 2018, Spinning Class, READ HERE
Blueprint, February 2018
Architects’ Journal,16 November 2017, Building Study READ HERE