Ashwell Bury
| Ashwell Bury | |
| Hertfordshire | |
|---|---|
 Ashwell Bury | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | TL26594002 |
| Location: | 52°2’39"N, 0°9’20"W |
| History | |
| Built c 1860 / 1922-6 | |
| For: | Edward Fordham by incl. Edwin Lutyens |
| Country house | |
| Information | |
Ashwell Bury, at Ashwell in Hertfordshire, is an early 19th-century house of white brick, perhaps originally built before 1836 for Edward George Fordham (1782–1868); altered c. 1860 for Edward King Fordham (1810–99), who extended the family landholding; and then further remodelled, chiefly inside, by Sir Edwin Lutyens for Phyllis Fordham in 1922–26.
The house is of two storeys and five bays, but the central bay is wide, with a triple sash window above the front door. Lutyens replaced the cornice with eaves but retained the existing slate roof and chimneystacks, inserted new sash windows and covered the brick with a white cement. His most notable addition is the new staircase hall, which gives the house an effective focus and a touch of grandeur. It was fitted into a square rear courtyard and has an octagonal lantern and glazed internal windows on three sides of the first floor with mirror glass on the fourth. The lowest steps of the stair fill the full width of the well, before narrowing to the width of the second and third flights. Two other rooms have Lutyens chimneypieces.
Gardens
The gardens were altered by Gertrude Jekyll in 1908–09. They are registered as Grade II.[1]
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References
- ↑ National Heritage List 1000904: Ashwell Bury
- Arts Council of England, Lutyens (exhibition catalogue), 1982, p. 142
- Nikolaus Pevsner: The Buildings of England: Hertfordshire, 1953; 1977 Penguin Books ISBN 978-0-300-09611-8page 77