Key Lutyens Buildings - featured:

Lutyens Hotel : Grey Walls Hotel, Gullane, east Scotland
Lutyens House : Ferry Inn, west Scotland
Lutyens Castle : Lindisfarne, Northumbria, northeast England

Featured Lutyens Buildings - in more detail
Lutyens only designed two houses in Scotland

Grey Walls, which now forms a hotel, in Gullane, East Lothian
Lutyens-designed house, Gertrude Jekyll-designed gardens: like entering an Agatha Christie film.

Edwin Lutyens Architect : Grey Walls Hotel


Lutyens house: image © isabelle lomholt

Edwin Lutyens hotel building photos

Lutyens House - Ferry Inn, an Arts & Crafts house near Helensburgh
The house was put up for sale in late 2004 by FPD Savills
Category A Listed House
Strictly Private
Built: 1896/97 for Princess Louise, later Duchess of Argyll

Edwin Lutyens : Ferry Inn, west Scotland

Lutyens extended the original Ferry Inn that dated from around 1800. Edwin was only 27 when he started the project. The original Inn was later demolished. The house is in the Arts & Crafts style and has three rather different elevations.

[Building in the general area of Ferry Inn: Hill House by Rennie Mackintosh]

Lindisfarne Castle
Holy Island, Northumbria, northeast England


Lutyens building: image © adrian welch

Edwin Lutyens : Castle buildings on Holy Island

Edwin Lutyens in England:
Silver Street bridge in Cambridge by Queens' College & Benson Court at Magdalene College (1930-32): Cambridge Architecture

Another Scottish Country House by an English architect in the Arts & Crafts style: Sandford Country House Hotel by architect MH Baillie Scott




Edwin Lutyens Architect - Background
In 1885 Lutyens became a student at the Kensington School of Art but did not last the course. He joined the office of Ernest George and Peto where he made friends with chief assistant Herbert Baker; he was later to collaborate with him in the building of New Delhi.

He started work as an architect in 1889 and married in 1897. Sir Edwin Lutyens died in 1944.

Lutyens made his name designing English country houses in the arts & crafts style, working with garden designer Gertrude Jekyll.


Edwin Lutyens Architect - Key Buildings:
British Embassy, Washington DC, USA
Castle Drogo, Dartmoor, Devon, England
Cenotaph, Whitehall, London
Crypt, Cathedral of Christ the King, Liverpool, UK
Johannesburg Art Gallery, South Africa
Lindisfarne Castle remodelling, Northumbria, England
Munstead Wood, Surrey, England - Gertrude Jekyll's home
Thiepval Arch, Somme, France
Viceroy's House, (Rastrapati Bhavan), New Delhi, India

Edwin Lutyens : London Cenotaph

Edwin Lutyens - Key English Building:
Castle Drogo - National Trust property
1910-30
Client: Julius Drewe, merchant

Castle Drogo gardens were designed by Gertrude Jekyll, high above the River Teign

Location: Castle Drogo, Drewsteignton, nr Exeter, Devon
Tel. 01647 433306

Famous Lutyens house:
Deanery Garden
for Edward Hudson – Country Life magazine proprietor

Edwin Lutyens - Key English Building:
Munstead Wood
1896
An important building as built by Lutyens for long-term collaborator Gertrude Jekyll
Location: 2km southeast of Godalming, near London

Edwin Lutyens - Key English Building:
Goddards
1898-1900
Location: Abinger Common, Surrey
extended by Lutyens in 1910
Garden designed by Gertrude Jekyll.
Built as a 'Home of Rest' by Frederick Mirrielees. The house was re modelled in 1910 for Mirrielees' son to live in. From 1953 it was owned by Mr & Mrs Hall. Goddards was given to the Lutyens Trust by them in 1991. Run by the Landmark Trust at time of writing so available for holidays.

Edwin Lutyens - Key French Project:
Thiepval Arch: Memorial to the Missing
1932
Thiepval, Somme, France



Edwin Lutyens Architect - Other Buildings (alphabetical):
Crooksbury, England
1889
Hampstead Garden Suburb Free Church, Central Square, Barnet, London NW11
1910
Les Bois des Moutiers, Normandy, France
1898
Middleton Park, England
1938
Midland Bank, 140 Leadenhall Street, London EC3
1931
Penheale Manor – new wing, Cornwall, England
1920

Edwin Lutyens : Liverpool Crypt

Scottish Architecture
English Buildings
Scottish Castles


Lutyens house - Grey Walls: image © isabelle lomholt

Edwin Lutyens - Winner of RIBA Gold Medal 1921

Sir Edwin Lutyens' home, Goddards, is looked after by the Landmark Trust ie you can stay there.

Knebworth House, Knebworth, Hertfordshire
elements by Edwin Lutyens

World Architecture : e-architect - a guide to key buildings across the globe

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Edwin Lutyens buildings - page : adrian welch / isabelle lomholt

Useful Links:
Gertrude Jekyll: www.gertrudejekyll.co.uk
Lutyens Trust: www.lutyenstrust.org.uk