1901 – Tigbourne Court, Godalming, Surrey

“This building was erected for Mr. Edgar Horne. It is of local stone, with small cast bricks formullions, &c. The roofs are covered with tiles. The house is on a limited site, and is built on the road side, so as to give the maximum of garden ground on the south and east sides. The architect is Mr. E.L. Lutyens; the builder, Mr. Maxey, of Reading ; and the plumbing was carried out by Mr. Allen, of Eastbourne.”
The Builder, September 7 1901

Edwin Lutyens designed Tigbourne Court in 1899 for businessman Edgar Horne, later the chairman of the Prudential Assurance Company, although he never lived in it. An Arts & Crafts style mansion, it combines architectural elements from the Tudor period and the 17th century. The western side of the house has the main entrance at the end of a shallow courtyard, flanked by two wings with delighful inset curved ends, with pairs of chimneys. Finished in brick, the main elevation is formed of three gables with narrow windows. All of the west-facing windows have brick mullions and those on the first floor have brick pediments. The planting scheme for the garden was conceived by Gertrude Jekyll, whose own home neaby was also designed by Lutyens. Grade I listed.