Storm Tower Team Collects Cornish Buildings Award
The team behind the successful relocation and restoration of the Storm Tower at Compass Point were delighted to collect their Cornish Buildings Group Award 2025 at a celebration held on 17 July at Holman Park, Camborne.
The award recognises the exceptional effort to save the iconic Bude landmark from coastal erosion—carefully dismantling, relocating and rebuilding the structure while preserving its historic character.
Representing the project at the event were:
Dr Patrick Newberry – Chair, Cornish Building Group
John Duncan – Architect, Studio Arc
Francesca Churchill-Zerilli – Project Manager (formerly with Bude-Stratton Town Council)
Trevor Humphries – Capital Project Manager & QS, Trevor Humphreys Associates
Ian Saltern – Deputy Town Clerk, Bude-Stratton Town Council
Cllr Peter La Broy – Cornwall Council and Bude-Stratton Town Council
The judging panel praised the project as a “tremendous rescue of an extremely important part of Cornwall’s built environment,” and described the restored Storm Tower as “rising again in all its glory”.
The project has also been shortlisted in the Heritage category of the RICS UK Awards 2025, with winners to be announced in October.
