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.

 

 

Copyright Nigel Rigden/Morgan Carey Architects
Link > Nigel Rigden’s website www.nigrig.com (Photographer)
Link > www.morgancarey.co.uk/hill-close.aspx

 

Copyright Nigel Rigden/Morgan Carey Architects
Link > Nigel Rigden’s website: www.nigrig.com (Photographer)
Link > www.morgancarey.co.uk/hill-close.aspx

 

 

Copyright Nigel Rigden/Morgan Carey Architects
Link > Nigel Rigden’s website: www.nigrig.com (Photographer)
Link > www.morgancarey.co.uk/hill-close.aspx

 

 Link > www.morgancarey.co.uk/hill-close.aspx
 

 

Photos by Peter Davey, Arts and Crafts ArchitectureThe Search for Earthly Paradise, p.91.

 

 

 

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Hill Close, Studland Bay,
photo published in Dekorative Kunst, 1898

 

 

Link > RIBA Drawings Collection

 

 

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.

 

 

 


Photo by John Bullock, Lighting Design
photo on www.houzz.co.uk

 

Voysey House

Photo by John Bullock Lighting Design
photo on www.houzz.co.uk

 

Voysey House

Photo by John Bullock Lighting Design
photo on www.houzz.co.uk

 

Voysey House

Photo by John Bullock Lighting Design
photo on www.houzz.co.uk

 

Voysey House

Photo by John Bullock Lighting Design
photo on www.houzz.co.uk

 

Voysey House

Photo by John Bullock Lighting Design
photo on www.houzz.co.uk

 

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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.

Link > www.voyseysociety.org

 

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.

David ColeThe Art and architecture of CFA Voysey : English pioneer modernist architect & designer, 2015.

 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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