Hill End
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Hill End, a large red-brick house by Lutyens of c.1911–12 for a friend of Violet Fenwick, presents an irregular service-front with modest entrance and cross-wings, contrasted by a more formal garden elevation with hipped roofs and a recessed three-bay centre rising to a parapet with lead urns.
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Description
Here H. G. Fenwick purchased Hill End Farm in 1910 and employed Lutyens on various buildings: Langley End Cottage has the distinctive chimneys found on Lutyens’s estate cottages at Preston, as do Hill End Farm Cottages, further n. More important, a large new red brick house, Hill End, was commissioned by Fenwick’s wife Violet, c. 1911–12, for a friend. From the road, an irregular service wing half-conceals the almost modest entrance, single-storey beneath a huge roof with dormers, and two-storey cross-wings to l. and r. with hipped roofs. The garden front is more formal, again with hipped roofs but the recessed three-bay centre carried up to a parapet with lead urns. Lawrence Weaver wrote that ‘the garden side is a very just example of the spirit of classical repose in a composition possessing no definite classical features’. Now subdivided. (Bettley et al, 2019, p.345)
Bibliography
Bettley J, Pevsner N, Cherry B (2019) Hertfordshire. The Buildings of England. New Haven: Yale University Press.
, WEAVER, L., 1917. THE LESSER COUNTRY HOUSES OF TO-DAY: HILL END, PRESTON, HERTS, DESIGNED BY MR. LUTYENS. Country Life (Archive : 1901 – 2005), 41(1056), pp. 10-10, 12, 14.
