There’s a workshop made of rammed earth and used for building wooden bicycles, a complex designed to contain a huge model railway, and a shed called Eccentrica, which might look like a fairly normal clapboard shack if it weren’t for the WWII-era aircraft gun turrets on the roof.
“One of these ‘sheds’ has brick walls, a stone floor and an Aga,” grumbles a friend. “The house I actually live in qualifies as a shed if these are the criteria.”
“A lot of purists would say a shed should be a wooden building,” admits web designer Andrew Wilcox, who set up the award, which is sponsored by Cuprinol, in 2007 as an extension of the shed-fanciers websitewww.readersheds.co.uk he founded in 2001.