Voysey (two of whose designs have been newly made by the Barnsley Workshop). Gertrude Jekyll could not join as women were not admitted as members until 1966, since when many of the annually-appointed Masters have been women. In the hall of the Guild, a large Edwardian room at the back of a Queen Anne terrace house, busts and portraits of these worthies crowd the vermilion walls, looking down on rush-seated chairs.The Guild has provided camaraderie, instruction and debate once a fortnight for its members, but deliberately avoided public exposure. It was founded, mostly by architects, to provide a meeting place for practitioners in the arts and crafts, to encourage collaborative projects and address the issues of the day It still serves these functions for its members. When Lutyens first went to a Guild meeting as a guest around 1892, he recalled that "then, no one knew me and those few that did patronised or snubbed me," but he joined later and admired the freedom to argue passionately and "the way those fellows lay into each other" He was Master in 1935, in succession to William Morris, W R Lethaby and C F A.

Also on show at the Guild is new furniture by the Edward Barnsley Workshop, Hampshire. A Guild member for 53 years, Barnsley was the second generation of his family to make furniture by hand and opened his workshop 75 years ago. The Art Workers Guild is a dozen or so years older than La Bois des Moutiers. There are paintings, prints, stained and engraved glass and sculpture, and "The Dreaming House", a new short story by Jeanette Winterson illustrated by Ian Beck, published in a limited edition by Ulysses Bookshop. Sloping down to the English Channel, it could almost be Eastbourne, but it is all the more typically English for being in France.

To celebrate the centenary of Le Bois des Moutiers, Peyton Skipwith, a director of the Fine Art Society in London's New Bond Street who is currently Master of the Art Workers Guild, has organised an exhibition of work by current members of the Guild, taking the house and its garden as the subject. Driftwood) why he is dining in a restaurant with another woman. "I'm dining with her because she reminds me of you", he replies. "And now I'll dine with you because you remind me of you." One of the fascinations of going abroad is to find something that reminds you of home, because out of context, the resemblance is much stronger. For a number of years, English visitors to Dieppe have taken a particular pleasure in the house and garden of Le Bois des Moutiers at Varengeville, designed in 1898 by Sir Edwin Lutyens for M. & Mme Guillaume Mallet, Anglophile members of a French Protestant banking family whose descendants still own the house and open the Gertrude Jekyll gardens to the public.

The concrete swimming pool is too chilly for modern bathers and will be replaced by a heated, modern pool. Original Crittall window frames will not take double glazing and the listing requires that they be retained. In the opening sequence of the Marx Brothers' A Night at the Opera, Margaret Dumont as the rich widow; Mrs Claypoole, asks Groucho (Otis B. Its great that there are people prepared to preserve important buildings like this."Mike Harrison 1998. The heating bills will be colossal.Brenda Major says, "McGrath got some things wrong, like detailing and weatherproofing, and he couldn't work out how to route the rainwater pipes from the roof I quite like that It's part of the charm But St Anne's Court is magic. The main accomodation and quarters for servants were separate.