NEW PLACE.

1897
Farnham Lane, Haslemere, Surrey.

The house was known as 'Hurtmore' until January 1900.

For A. M. M. Stedman,
later known as Sir Algernon Methuen.
 

Additions and alterations1899 and 1901.
 1899 designs for lodge, stables, gardener's cottage and summerhouse. 
 1904 design for motor stables.


The walls are roughcast, the windows have stone dressings and the roofs are of green slate.
 

 

Photo published in Hermann Muthesius, Das englische Haus, p.125

 

Photo Royal Pavilion, Art Gallery and Museums,
published in Duncan Simpson, C.F.A. VOYSEY an architect of individuality, pl.21c, p.53.

 

 

New Place, Haslemere, photo courtesy of John Trotter

 

 

New Place, Haslemere, photo courtesy of John Trotter

 

New Place, Haslemere, photo courtesy of John Trotter

 

 

New Place, Haslemere, photo courtesy of John Trotter

 

 

 

New Place, Haslemere, photo courtesy of John Trotter

 

 

New Place, Haslemere, photo courtesy of John Trotter

 

 

New Place, Haslemere, photo courtesy of John Trotter

 

New Place, Haslemere, photo courtesy of John Trotter

 

 

New Place, Haslemere, photo courtesy of John Trotter

 

New Place, Haslemere, photo courtesy of John Trotter

 

New Place, Haslemere, photo courtesy of John Trotter

 

New Place, Haslemere, Cottage, photo courtesy of John Trotter

 

 

New Place, Haslemere, photo courtesy of John Trotter

 

 



 Link > RIBA Drawings Collection

 

New Place, Ground Floor Plan

 

New Place, Lower Floor Plan and First Floor Plan

 

 

Ground floor, published in Studio, Vol. 21, 1901, p. 243.

 

 

Ground floor, published in Hermann Muthesius, Das englische Haus.

 

 

Published in Hermann Muthesius, Das englische Haus.

 

 

Lower Ground Plan and First Floor Plan,
published in Hermann Muthesius, Das englische Haus, p.125.

 

 

Published in Hermann Muthesius, Das englische Haus, vol. 2, Berlin, 1904-05.

Link > RIBA Image 

 

Published in Hermann Muthesius, Das englische Haus, vol. 2, Berlin, 1904-05.

 

 

House and garden,
published in Stuart Durant, C F A  Voysey, London 1992, p.45.
RIBA Drawings Collection

 

 

New Place, Dekorative Kunst, 1906.

 

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Vernacular example of bays under cross gables

Ludlow, Town Preacher's House 14 Old Street, (1611), photo by Ben Abel on flickr

 

 

Photographs and Drawings Courtesy of The Royal Institute of British Architects.
Photographs, drawings, perspectives and other design patterns
at the Royal Institut of British Architects Drawings and Photographs Collection.
Images can be purchased.
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 Link > RIBA Drawings Collection: New Place

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Link > Black & White Images on flickr taken in 1976

 

 

The entry in Pevsner's Surrey (with Ian Nairn and Bridget Cherry, 1971) reads:

NEW PLACE ... built in 1897, a good and very typical Voysey house. Long and low, roughcast and slate-roofed, not small enough to look over-designed, not so big that Voysey felt bound to complicate the severe lines with extra details, as he did at Norney; very successful. There used to be a similarly direct Garden Seat, now destroyed, and the same feeling is evident in the Garage at the entrance – one segmental arch under a big steep gable. Gertrude Jekyll collaborated on the garden.

Also by Voysey a Lodge next to the garage, and a pair of Cottages in Polecat Lane, W of the house. The latter, of 1903, look a good deal altered.

Source: Pevsner Architectural Guides at Yale University Press.

Link > www.voyseysociety.org

 

 

Description on Historic England

FARNHAM LANE
1. 5393 (West Side) New Place SU 83 SE 9/31 23.1.73. II
2. 1897 by C.F.A. Voysey. Two and 3 storeys. White roughcast walls. Stone dressings. Mullion windows with leaded lights. Gabled slate roof. Entrance front has stone porch with semi-circular hood supported on brackets. Bay window to left. Tall roughcast chimney-stack to right. Upper floor window used as dormer with flat roof. Sloping buttresses at corners. Garden front has varied levels. To left ground drops away and there is a 3 storey bow window crowned by a roughcast gable. The portion to right is higher and is 2 and one storeyed. In centre is gable with chimney-stack set against it. To right another gable to a one-storeyed block against which is set a bow window with semi-circular arch looking onto a formal garden.

 

 References:

Wendy Hitchmough, CFA  VOYSEY, London 1995, pp. 90-94, 106-9.

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

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

 Dekorative Kunst, I, 1897, p. 242; XI, 1902-03, p. 370; XIV, 1906, pp. 194-195.

 The Studio, XXI, 1901, pp. 242 & 243.

 House and Garden, III, 1903, pp. 254-258.

 Architectural Review (Boston), XI, 1904, p. 12.
 
 The Builder's Journal & Architectural Record, XX, 1904, p. 262.

 W. Shaw Sparrow (ed.), The Britisch home of today, 1904, E21 (photograph of the hall).
 
 Hermann Muthesius, Das englische Haus, II, Berlin 1904-1905, pp. 113-114 & 124-125.
 
 Hermann Muthesius, Das moderne Landhaus, Berlin 1905, pp. 146-147.

 W. Shaw Sparrow, Our Homes and How to Make the Best of Them, 1909, p. 238 (photograph of the hall).

 Duggan, W.B., New Place Haslemere and its gardens (Printed for private circulation, 1921),
                         revised reprint of an article in The Garden.

 

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