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Latitude: 51.8634 / 51°51'48"N
Longitude: -0.2026 / 0°12'9"W
OS Eastings: 523865
OS Northings: 219842
OS Grid: TL238198
Mapcode National: GBR J8G.3MD
Mapcode Global: VHGP6.FFSC
Plus Code: 9C3XVQ7W+9X
Entry Name: Homewood
Listing Date: 2 May 1973
Grade: II*
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1102736
English Heritage Legacy ID: 162123
Also known as: Homewood, Knebworth
ID on this website: 101102736
Location: Rableyheath, North Hertfordshire, SG3
County: Hertfordshire
District: North Hertfordshire
Civil Parish: Knebworth
Traditional County: Hertfordshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Hertfordshire
Church of England Parish: Knebworth
Church of England Diocese: St.Albans
Tagged with: English country house
PARK LANE (south side)
TL 21 NW KNEBWORTH Old llnebvorth
7/164 Homewood
2.5.73
- II*
House. 1900 by Sir Edwin Lutyens for the Dowager, Countess of
Lytton. Vernacular and Georgian revival styles. Ground floor in
whitewashed brick, upper floor weatherboarded. Plain tile roof
with red brick chimney stacks. Wood mullioned and transomed
windows with leaded lights. Entrance front has 3 gable ends,
each with a cross window. Central tunnel arch to doorways with a
segmental pediment and rusticated side piers. Suspended flat
arch between the imposts. Sinqle storey end-pavilions repeat the
rusticated piers and have small leaded lights. Garden elevation
has a recessed centre with an applied loggia of 4 Ionic
pilasters, above which is a deep eaves with mutules and panels.
The ground floor has arched and mullioned french windows and the
1st floor 5 2-light windows. Wrapped around beneath the central
eaves are single storey side wings with rusticated piers and
angle dressings. Their inner parts are open loggias. The
service side on E has a central 1-window turret with a 2-light
attic window, the ground floor with a pent ice roof. Interior of
house has fireplace surrounds and cornices in an early C18 style
(Pevsner (1977)).
Listing NGR: TL2386519842
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