Goddards Study Day: Lutyens in Context

Led by Margaret Richardson and Roderick Gradidge

Starting from Godalming Station 20 of us examined the interiors as well as the exteriors of two houses: Wood End built in 1897 for Lady Georgian Stewart and now for sale, and Hoe Farm enlarged by Lutyens in 1891 and a puzzle, which we tried to solve, of what is and what is not by Lutyens. It was rented in 1915 by Winston Churchill and it was there that he started to paint. We had an excellent lunch there provided by Sally-Anne Gordon. We also looked at the entrance façade of Tigbourne Court and walked round Park Hatch Lodges and Lorimer’s important house, High Barn, Hascombe. Munstead Orchard, The Hut and Winkworth Farm we saw from the bus. The day, mainly of Lutyens’s very early houses showed us what interesting work he was doing right from the beginning.

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