Sir Edwin Lutyens: Country Houses

• Preface by Sir Hugh Casson
• Acknowledgements

Introduction

• Biographical details

Chapter 1 Architectural Background

• Rehabilitation of Victorian and Edwardian architects
• The country house
• Styles and influences
• The influence of Webb
• The influence of Shaw
• The Arts and Crafts movement

Chapter 2 Early Life and the Surrey Vernacular, 1869-97

• Early life
• Enrolment as an architect
• Crooksbury
• Gertrude Jekyll and garden design
• Munstead Wood
• Marriage
• Ruckmans, Sullingstead and Fulbrook

Chapter 3 Established Vernacular, 1897-1906

• Edward Hudson and Country Life
• Orchards
• The Deanery Garden, Sonning
• Goddards
• Barton St. Mary
• Marshcourt
• Papillon Hall
• Little Thakeham
• Grey Walls
• Tigbourne Court
• Daneshill, New Place and North House

Chapter 4 Classical Beginnings, 1898-1906

• Extensions to Crooksbury
• Homewood
• Monkton
• Folly Farm
• Millmead
• Lutyens' architectural office

Chapter 5 The Georgian Influence, 1906-12

• Heathcote
• Nashdom
• The Salutation, Sandwich
• Great Maythan
• Middlefield
• Ednaston Manor
• Lutyens' other work before 1914
• Travel

Chapter 6 Castle Drogo and Abbey House

• Abbey House

Chapter 7 Alterations and Reconstructions, 1902-28

• The Hoo, Willington
• Barham Court
• Temple Dinsley
• Ashby St. Ledgers
• Whalton Manor
• Great Dixter
• Lindisfarne Castle
• Lambay Castle
• Garden commissions

Chapter 8 The Final Years, 1923-38

• Classicism and the Modern Movement
• Memorials and abstract geometry
• Gledstone Hall
• The British Embassy in Washington
• Middleton Park
• Halnaker Park

Postscript

• References
• Select Bibliography
• Index of the houses discussed in this book
• Articles on the houses disccused, in Country Life