On the setting of heritage assets

A lovely and rather sunny couple of days spent with Oxford University’s Dept for Continuing Education considering the setting of heritage assets, how to assess the contribution that setting makes to an assets significance, and how through timely engagement with heritage professionals, design can be influenced to address harm in the early stages of an application, and ultimately, keep the Conservation Officer all fuzzy and warm (and protect our heritage obviously!)

Our subject was the Radcliffe Observatory, built after Thomas Hornsby, (lying abed in the next door infirmary), just happened to notice the transit of Venus across the Sun, which led to Cook’s voyage to Tahiti, which in conjunction with Harrison’s clock developed our understanding of longitude and thence Britain’s pre-eminance…

The last time I took a sick day I binge watched Frasier… Sigh…