5.6 Management of historic structures in the landscape context
Guidelines for managing historic buildings provide much advice on identifying, analysing and repairing construction details.
There has been much less written on the management of structures within a landscape context.
This requires identifying the elements and characteristics that relate the structure to other features in the landscape, and to the
broader landscape itself. This includes identifying linkages, such as historic access routes to a structure; understanding the
topographic reasons for its siting; considering the importance of sight lines to and from it, and focussing on structures or
features that relate it to other components in the landscape, for instance by virtue of common usage. On the basis of analysing
this information, it may be necessary to restore or reconstruct access and sight lines to a structure, so as to reinstate its meaning
in the landscape context.