Identifier: lutyenshousesga00weav (find matches)
Title: Lutyens houses and gardens
Year: 1921 (1920s)
Authors: Weaver, Lawrence, 1876-1930
Subjects: Lutyens, Edwin Landseer, Sir, 1869-1944 Architecture, Domestic Gardens
Publisher: London, Offices of "Country life", ltd. (etc.) New York, C. Scribner's Sons
Contributing Library: University of Connecticut Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: LYRASIS Members and Sloan Foundation

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28.—Goddards : Staircase to Studio. wings built in 1910. The house stands on Abinger Common,which runs for a couple of miles south of Leith Hill. Theair sweeps up from the weald to this typical Surrey siteover the nine hundred feet of elevation of the hill, and thehouse itself is nearly seven hundred feet above the sea.The ancient name of the property was Goddards, andthat name it still retains. It shows a delightful variety 46 Lutyens Houses and Gardens
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HZ O wu 7) Q ■< QQO C Horsham Slabs and Brick Mullions 47 both in plan and in the use and treatment of materials.What, for example, could be more charming than the westerncourt (Fig. 27), with its fine roof, partly of Horsham slabs,its brick-mullioned windows and doors, or the garden there,with its curiously laid pavements and flowering plantslike sea-anemones lying on a rock ? Fig. 28 shows a goodsimple type of wooden staircase. Tigbourne Court was built in 1899. Surrey has no fairerregion than that which lies between Guildford and Hind-head, for it is a land watered by many streams in the green-gathering grounds both of the Wey and the Arun, a country

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