Self-Conscious Regionalism: Dan Gibson and the Arts and Crafts House in the Lake District

In 1902 the garden designer Thomas H. Mawson, in a lecture on ‘The Unity of the House and Garden’, quoted the advice given by William Wordsworth in the fi rst decades of the previous century: ‘Build long and low, said Wordsworth, advising a friend’, and Mawson added,

those of you who know our bonny Westmorland, its old farmhouses (practically the only architecture we possess) will have realised how good that advice was. Surely it was the infl uence of the hills the poet loved so well which dictated this advice.1