Homewood, 1903
Directions
by Car
Knebworth House & Park are accessed direct from the Junction 7 roundabout of the A1(M) motorway at Stevenage South, 29 miles north of London. There are signs on both carriageways of the motorway. There is plenty of free parking for cars and coaches.
If you are using a Sat Nav system use the post code SG1 2AX.
Public Transport
The nearest rail station is Stevenage, two miles from Knebworth Park. There is a taxi rank at the station. Non-stop intercity and local services run to Stevenage station from London King’s Cross station around every 30 minutes.
There are also frequent intercity connections on the East Coast main line and buses run into Knebworth Village.
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Knebworth Garden Village & Concert
Friday, 19th June, 2026, 10am-9pm
Knebworth Barns, Knebworth Estate, Knebworth, Herts, SG3 6PY
We are delighted to offer a day at Knebworth, by kind permission of Henry Lytton-Cobbold, and the owners of the Lutyens houses in the village.
How many of you knew that before Hampstead Garden Suburb and the city planning for New Delhi, Lutyens was testing his planning skills designing a garden village at Knebworth?
In 1904, the 2nd Earl Lytton, Victor, sought to create new revenue for the Estate in creating a Garden Village. Only 15 miles north, Letchworth Garden City was taking shape. By 1911 Lutyens had a scheme of 1000 acres in hand, along with the planner Thomas Adams from the Letchworth project. Knebworth’s existing medieval lanes and scattering of houses would become part of a geometrical masterpiece with generous front gardens and well-proportioned cottages. Four segments were completed before the outbreak of the First World War. Now, over a century later, Henry Lytton-Cobbold is working towards completing his forebear’s vision.
Our day will begin at 10am at Knebworth Barns, where Henry will present a talk all about the garden village (with coffee). We will have the opportunity to visit St Mary’s Church (Old Knebworth), to admire Lutyens’s reordering of the church and his memorials to the Lytton family. Then we will drive into the village, starting at the grade II* St Martin’s Church, consecrated in 1915 and completed by Sir Albert Richardson in 1964.
A 2-course lunch will be hosted in the Dining Room of the grade II listed Knebworth Golf Club, designed in 1908 as part of the garden village.
In the afternoon, Henry will take us around the Garden Village, where we will see the exteriors and gardens of 188 Park Lane, No. 3 Wych Elms and No. 7 Hillcroft. We will continue onto Homewood, built as the Dower House in 1903, this grade II* house is famous amongst Lutyens houses for its duel personality elevations.
After much needed refreshments at St Martin’s we will conclude the visit with a special concert of Elisabeth Lutyen’s musical scores and Mozart.
Tickets are £120 per person
(or £100 without entry to the concert). This includes: coffee on arrival, a lecture, the walking tour, entry to the exterior of Homewood and other Lutyens houses in the village, the two churches, lunch in the Lutyens-designed Golf Club (dining room), and the concert in the evening, with refreshments.
Members are welcome to bring guests at an increased rate to include a £5 day membership fee.
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