Christopher Wren, famously the architect of St Paul’s Cathedral in London, was probably the architect of Winslow Hall, a rather sweet formal country house in Buckinghamshire, built for William Lowndes in 1700.

Being at the house in a sunny October allows witness of the tiny shadow of the pediment to the house emerging between the four colossal shadows of the chimney stacks. This observation led to the proposal for a simple ‘calendar footpath’ leading from the house into the garden.

The new brick path would be inset with carved stones representing the signs of the zodiac to indicate the time of year as the shadow of the tip of the triangular pediment passed over the path. As the house is almost exactly orientated facing South, the shadow crossing the path also indicates local noon.