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SUCCESS BY DESIGN: Roundhouse designer Geoff Simpson, left, with farmers Nick and John Hodgson

A REVOLUTIONARY farm building created by a North-East company has won a national award.

The Roundhouse was designed by Geoff Simpson in conjunction with business partner John Allinson, of S & A Fabrications, in Barnard Castle.

Round with open sides and a central hole in the dome-shaped, high-strength tensile fabric roof, it has been described as "the SUCCESS BY DESIGN: Roundhouse designer Geoff Simpson, left, with farmers Nick and John Hodgson most exciting development in agricultural buildings for 50 years".

Now it has been named the best new building in England and Wales in the Country Land and Business Association's (CLA) centenary rural buildings award.

Mr Simpson will receive the CLA President's award on Friday, January 18, at Grange Farm, Summerhouse, near Darlington, where farmers John and Nick Hodgson were one of the first to erect a Roundhouse.

Mr Simpson described the award as "a crowning glory, which recognises the innovative design".

S&A has since set up a subsidiary company - Roundhouse Building Solutions.

Mr Simpson, who spent four years and £500,000 coming up with the final production design, said: "The Roundhouse is going extremely well - we have sold ten so far for different uses.

"They are all over the country and one is in the Republic of Ireland."

8:16am Thursday 10th January 2008

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