Gate Piers And Flanking Walls Immediately East North East Of Britwell / Gate Piers And Flanking Walls Immediately East North East Of The Mansion
Date: 6 Oct 1999
Location: Gate Piers And Flanking Walls Immediately East North East Of Britwell, Berkhamstead Hill, Berkhamsted, Dacorum, Hertfordshire
Gate-piers and flanking walls. 1906-8 by George Hubbard (built by H and J Matthews, Berkhamsted builders) for Sir John Evans, archaeo- logist. Rusticated red brick gate-piers and flanking quadrant walls with similar terminal piers. The piers have moulded stone necking and cornices, the gate-piers with elaborately scrolled wrought-iron lamp standards and lamps on top. The quadrant walls are of header bond purple brick with red brick diaperwork and stone coping. The wrought- iron gates are late replacements. The Mansion (qv) was originally known as Britwell.
Sources: A S Gray, Edwardian Architecture, p218.
D N B Builder 29 July 1905.
Britwell / The Mansion
Date: 6 Oct 1999
Location: Britwell, Berkhamstead Hill, Berkhamsted, Dacorum, Hertfordshire
Large house. 1906-8 by George Hubbard (built by H and J Matthews, Berkhamsted builders), for Sir John Evans, archaeologist. English bond purple brick with red brick dressings. Hipped tile roof with large wooden modillion eaves cornice. Brick axial stacks with moulded brick cornices. Plan: Double depth central block with central entrance and stair hall; long flanking wingsdesigned to give appearance of separate building phases. Queen Anne Style. Exterior: 2 storeys and attic.
1:4:2 central block, the centre 4 bays break forward with large pediment, its centre 2 bays break forward again, with rusticated brick pilasters string and central doorway with Tuscan columns and consoles supporting open segmental pediment over shell. The flanking wings, 2 bays to right project and 4 bays to left, set back, have giant brick pilasters, panelled on ground floor and moulded string; further 2-bay wing set back again on left with pedimental (east) gable end of 3 windows over wide pilastered doorway. At rear (south) garden front: 3-bay centre block with 2-storey canted bays, central doorway and pedimented attic flanked by segmental pedimented dormers; 4:2 bay wing recessed on right and 3-bay wing set back on left with sundial dated 1649. Mostly original 12-pane sashes in exposed casing and flat roof dormers with sashes. Interior: Heavy moulded string staircase with twisted balusters. West end room (dining) has reused panelling with carved Jacobean overmantel and stone fireplace; and with good late C16 early C17 style moulded plaster ceiling. Room to west of front entrance has panelling and-carved overmantel (possibly reused) and moulded plaster ceiling. Library on first floor at east end has good kite pattern moulded plaster ceiling and fine reused Jacobean carved overmantel and stone fireplace. Note: originally known as Britwell.
Sources: A S Gray, Edwardian Architecture, p218.
DNB Builder 29 July 1905.
WITANHURST
Date: 18 Mar 2005
Location: Witanhurst, 41 Highgate West Hill, Hampstead, Camden, Greater London, N6 6LS
Substantial detached house. 1913-20. By George Hubbard. For Sir Arthur Crosfield.
Incorporating part of Parkfield, an early C18 house enlarged 1881 by Allen William Block, a merchant, and 1894 by Walter Scrimgeour, a barrister. Restored 1946. Red brick with stone dressings. Tiled roofs with dormers and tall brick chimney-stacks.
PLAN: L shaped plan in William & Mary style.
EXTERIOR: entrance facade (NE front) of 3 storeys and attics 10 windows main block; right hand forward return 2 storeys and attics 8 windows; left hand attached block (part of original house), 2 storeys 3 windows. Main block with channelled stone ground floor and quoin strips; central entrance with Doric stone doorcase. 1st floor windows segmental-arched sashes with lugged architraves; 2nd floor sashes with stone keystones and cast-iron balconies. Modillion eaves cornice. Right hand block red brick with stone band at 1st floor level, recessed sashes with keystone, modillion eaves cornice. Left hand block red brick with recessed sashes and modillion cornice. Left hand return (SE front) incorporates part of the original house; red brick with hipped tiled roof with wooden modillion eaves cornice. Original flat topped dormers replaced by hipped dormers. 2 storeys, attics and semi-basement. 5 original C18 windows bays at south-west end. Gauged brick flat arches to recessed sashes (originally flush frame with exposed boxing); 1st floor windows with projecting brick aprons and semi-basement with segmental-arched recesses. Main, SW garden front with Ionic loggia having modillion cornice surmounted by balustrade. 4 window centre and projecting end bays each with Venetian window, modillion pediment and architraved oeil-de-boeuf in tympanum.
INTERIOR: in 1914 White Allom and Co were commissioned to decorate and furnish the house. Percy Macquoid acted as consultant and designer, being responsible for the overall design of the Music Room, Drawing Room, Study, Hall and staircase, and most of the bedrooms, all in an opulent Classically detailed style. Other richly decorated rooms include the Dining Room, Chinese Room, Billiard Room, and the Gallery. The house has 65 rooms.
HISTORICAL NOTE: Sir Arthur Crosfield was Chairman of the soap manufacturers Joseph Crosfield and Sons and had been the MP for Warrington.
(Survey of London: RCHME: St Pancras Part I (Village of Highgate): 1936-: 72-73; Victoria County History: Middlesex, Vol. VI: London: 138).
Detail of a memorial tablet commemorating the officers of the Shropshire Constabulary who fell in the Great War
Date: 17 Jan 1920
The photograph was taken for the architects George Hubbard & Son.
War Memorial
Date: 28 Nov 2002
Location: War Memorial, The Quarry, Shrewsbury, Shrewsbury And Atcham, Shropshire, SY1 1JT
War memorial. 1922-3. By George Hubbard and Son. Granite plinth and columns carrying canopy over bronze statue. Low granite plinth with bronze railings cast in lozenge pattern and fluted Ionic shafts carrying domed canopy. Inscription runs round cornice. Beneath the canopy, a statue of St Michael wearing armour and with vast wings. This figure is by AG Wyon.