With its fairy-tale battlements, arrow slits, Portcullis and moat, it is the very image of a forbidding medieval fortress
and undoubtedly one of England's most evocative, especially in the early morning mist with the caws of crows rasping in the air.
The architect conceived the great
square tower as the keep of a legislative"castle"(echoing his selection of the Portcullis as his identifying mark in the planning competition),
and used it as the royal entrance to the Palace and as a fireproof repository for the archives of Parliament.
In a recent interview, Trevor Worth,
managing director of Portcullis Legals, said:‘I have contacted businesses far
and wide to find out the benefits and pitfalls of the four-day week, working with academics and industry leaders to find out the best way to apply the four-day week to Portcullis.