HILL CLOSE.
Studland Bay, Swanage, Dorset.
1895-6
For A. Sutro.
1913 lodge and motor house by Voysey.
Originally a studiohouse. Altered in recent times.
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Photos by Peter Davey, Arts and Crafts Architecture: The Search for Earthly Paradise, p.91.
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Hill Close, Studland Bay,
photo published in Dekorative Kunst, 1898
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Ground Plan
RIBA Drawings Collection
Ground Plan published in Studio, 21, 1901, p.246.
Ground Plan.
Published in The British Architect,
17th January 1896.
Image published in The British Architect, 17th January 1896.
Image published in The British Architect, 17th January 1896.
Text published in The British Architect, 17th January 1896, p.42.
Lodge and Motor house, drawings published in The British Architect, 25th April 1913.
Text published in The British Architect, 25th April 1913, p.315.
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Pevsner's Dorset (with Michael Hill and John Newman, 2018) says:
Studland. HILL CLOSE, 3/8m SW. Designed in 1896 by Voysey for Alfred Sutro, the popular Edwardian playwright. It is, like every Voysey house, an object lesson in creating picturesque irregularity within a unified frame. Roughcast walls, battered buttresses, long, low mullioned windows, all drawn snugly under the deep sloping hips of the stone-tiled roof. That is what Voysey would do anywhere. His only concession to local practice is the framing of the windows with rough-hewn blocks of Purbeck stone. Hill Close was built as a studio house, the studio window angled towards the view of Studland Bay. Restored in 2003 by Morgan Carey Architects, who removed some poor additions and added a sensitive one of their own at the S end.
Former LODGE with garage (‘motor house’, rather) by the road. Also Voysey’s, but of 1913: altered.
Source: Pevsner Architectural Guides at Yale University Press.
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Description on
Historic England:
Detached house. Built 1896, Architect C F Voysey, for
Alfred Sutro. Later flat-roofed extensions on south - not by Voysey. These
extended c1984 in matching style and given pitched roofs - architects Manning.
Clamp and Partners, Roughcast walls with rough ashlar dressings. Hipped stone
slate roof. Rough- cast stacks with tapered tops. Irregular plan. One storey and
attics. elevation has centre projecting bay with lead flat roof. Glazed metal
door with lead lights. Right of this a 3-light stone mullioned window and a
single- light window, all with lead lights. On first floor a similar 4-light
window. Left of the bay, on ground floor, 2 similar windows, of 3 and 4-lights.
Small 2-light window under eaves. Flat-roofed dormer with 3-light window.
Lean-to extension on left, with similar 3-light window. Right of the bay, on
ground floor, a similar 4-light window and, in attic, a flat-roofed dormer with
similar 2-light window. Small triangular dormer above the centre bay. Later
extension, on right, in matching construction, but with artificial stone slate
roofs. At left end of the house a large studio room with glazed end wall,
glazing modified c1984. Interior retains some original features. Voysey's only
known house in Dorset. See Newman and Pevsner. Buildings of England, Dorset.
References:
Wendy Hitchmough, CFA VOYSEY, London 1995 pp. 116-7.
The British Architect,
XLV, 1896, p. 42; 25th April 1913.
Dekorative
Kunst, I, 1898, p. 254.
G., The Revival of English Domestic Architecture VI. The Work of Mr. C. F. A. Voysey, The Studio, XI, 1897, pp. 16-25.
The Studio XXI, 1901, p. 246.
Hermann Muthesius,
Das englische Haus,
II, 1904-05, p. 205.
Hermann Muthesius,
Das moderne Landhaus und seine innere
Ausstattung,
1905, p. 146.
W. Shaw Sparrow
(ed.), The Modern Home,1906,
p. 54.
David
Gebhard, Charles F. A. Voysey,
fig. 55.
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