"the Elizabethans and Jacobeans never did better than in the entrance front of Wootton. It is though, after a long and painful struggle between the various elements of its inheritance, English architecture had for a short time reached a quiet haven. There is an atmosphere about Wootton of peace after a battle - the peace of achievement. Much has been assimilated, more has been discarded... the building seems to float or balance on a single pin-point of creative intensity - incredibly simple, effortlessly beautiful".