Kendal. No 103 SEDBERGH ROAD is Voysey's LITTLE HOME [sic, Holme], 1908, small, but treated with all the care Voysey was capable of. Just an oblong with a hipped roof and one chimney. Entrance recessed under a big plain arch, a motif repeated by innumerable spec builders. A big canopy of substantial timbers shelters the porch. The staircase window is typical Voysey (three lights, two transoms, no mouldings whatever), as are the other windows with their flat mullions and quoining. It is all inspired by rural Tudor, yet in its plainness and flushness on the way to the new style of the C20.

Source: Pevsner Architectural Guides at Yale University Press.

Description on Historic England

SD 59 SW KENDAL SEDBERGH ROAD (North side) 2/130 No 103 (Littleholme) 14-4-69 II
House, 1909 by Charles Voysey for Arthur Simpson (a local craftsman of handmade furniture). Snecked, rough-dressed blocks with quoins. Hipped, graduated roof of c45° pitch with flatter pitch to projecting eaves; stone mid chimney. Curved semicircular arch, with plank door and window in antis, under large lead canopy supported by curved braces; 2-light window to right. Similar window to 1st floor left with 5-light window, of alternating small and large lights, to right. Large stair window (3 x 3 lights) to west return. Square-leaded windows in stone surrounds with flat stone mullions (and transoms to stair window). Interior not inspected but late C20 sale prospectus illustrates and details internal fittings of high quality including inglenook fireplace, fitted cupboards, and plank doors, all in oak.

References:

Moderne Bauformen - Monatshefte für Architektur und Raumkunst, vol.10, 1911.

David Gebhard, Charles F. A. Voysey, figs. 121-2.

Duncan Simpson, C.F.A.  VOYSEY an architect of individuality, London 1979.

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