Description

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

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Homewood at Wikipedia
• Homewood official website
• Wikidata Q17554764

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Recommended Books

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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Old House Handbook 2 Books Bundle Collection (Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair,Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability)
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  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)