Lutyens Houses on the Market
Published August 2024
BARTON ST MARY, EAST GRINSTEAD, WEST SUSSEX
Described by Lawrence Weaver as ‘one of the best houses designed by Sir Edwin in a vernacular manner’, the Grade II listed Barton St Mary has come to the market, Built in 1906 for the shipping magnate Sir G Munro Miller, the house became a school during World War II and ownership then passed to Matilda Marks, of the retail family, who made several changes to both the interior and exterior. The house stands in grounds of over 20 acres and includes Gertrude Jekyll gardens.
The house is approached through an impressive gatehouse comprising a pair of 3 bedroom cottages with a central gated opening. The interior of the house is beautifully presented, extending to 8,163 sq ft and including 6 reception rooms, 7 bedrooms and 5 bathrooms.
The gardens are immaculately maintained and include a four-square garden, sunken Italian garden, kitchen garden, topiary walk, tennis court and swimming pool.
Available through Savills with a guide price of £5,000,000.
EASTON HOUSE, REPTON, DERBYSHIRE
Easton House is a Lutyens design of 1907 for Lawrence Arthur Burd who was a senior master at Repton School and an acknowledged expert on the works of Niccolò Machiavelli.
An ‘L’ shaped house built in the classical style with red brick elevations and casement windows under a tiled roof, there are two sets of bays under hipped roofs on the garden elevation.
Beautifully presented, the Grade II Listed house extends to 5,920 sq ft over two floors with accommodation including 5 reception rooms, 6 bedrooms and 3 bathrooms. There is extensive garaging (with planning permission to convert to a 2 bedroom cottage) and a separate gymnasium, which was originally the engine house for a generator. The whole standing in 4.6 acres of mature gardens and grounds including a hard tennis court.
Available through Fisher German with a guide price of £3,500,000.
THE DUTCH HOUSE, HOLMWOOD, SURREY
The Dutch House is a Lutyens design from 1901 for local developer Wildman Catley, built on a ‘papillon’ or ‘butterfly’ plan, described by Pevsner as ‘somewhat outré’.
The property has historic links to the Suffragette movement with Emmeline and Frederick Pethick-Lawrence having lived here from 1901 to 1921, when the property was known as ‘The Mascot’.
The house has whitewashed brick elevations and a semi-circular classical porch, under mansard tiled roofs. The accommodation includes 3 reception rooms, 6 bedrooms, 3 bath/shower rooms and 2 dressing rooms. There is an established west facing garden with a Lutyens pergola and a double garage. The grounds extend to just over half an acre.
Now Grade II Listed, the house has a guide price of £1,300,000 through Jackson-Stops.
CRUNNELLS GREEN, PRESTON, HERTFORDSHIRE
From 1908 Lutyens worked on Temple Dinsley, an 18th-century manor which had been acquired by Herbert Fenwick, enlarging and remodelling to make it more appropriate for entertaining on a grand scale. Whilst there were substantial works on the manor house Lutyens also designed a home farm and many estate houses and cottages. In 1913 he returned for further works including a house at Crunnells Green for the estate’s agent, Douglas Vickers.
Having elevations of brick with tile hanging to the first floor under a tiled roof, the accommodation extends to 4,026 sq ft with accommodation including 5 reception rooms, 5 bedrooms and 4 bathrooms. There is triple garaging with a study above and a garden mainly laid to lawn.
The house is not Listed. Available through Michael Graham with a guide price of £1,850,000.
NASHDOM, TAPLOW, BUCKINGHAMSHIRE
Two apartments are available in Nashdom, the Grade II* Listed mansion built by Lutyens 1905-09 for Prince Alexis Dolgorouki (Secretary of State to Czar Alexander II) and his wife Princess Frances. Reminiscent of a palace outside St Petersburg, Nashdom was designed entirely for entertaining. In 1926 the house became a Benedictine monastery and was converted into apartments in 1997.
The larger apartment available for sale is in the original house and extends to 3,666 sq ft over two floors including 3 reception rooms, one of which is round, and 2 bedroom suites each with bathroom and dressing room. Guide price £1,100,000.
The other apartment is in the more recent extension and extends to 1,248 sq ft, with I reception room, 2 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms. Guide price £575,000.
Both apartments benefit from 17 acres of communal gardens and woodland including a tennis court, swimming pool and gym plus individual garaging.
Both available through Fine & Country.
Please contact the Trust’s property market adviser, Richard Page, with any Lutyens-related property news at landseer75@hotmail.com
Disclaimer: prices and availability correct at time of going to press. Please check directly with the estate agent for availability.
