Lutwyche Hall

Lutwyche Hall is a house, formerly a school, dating back to 1587. It was originally commissioned for Judge Edward Lutwyche and features a 18th-century extension, alongside a mid-19th century remodelling and extensions from 1859 by S Pountney Smith, with restoration work carried out around 1989.

The building is constructed of brick with ashlar dressings, including quoins, moulded storey bands, mullion and transom windows with moulded surrounds, a moulded cornice, gable copings with ball finials, balustraded parapets with corner finials, and leaded lights throughout. The roofs are covered with plain tiles, with hipped sections to the lower wing and coped gables. Large brick ridge stacks are present with connected diagonal spur-moulded shafts featuring oversailing caps.

The building’s plan is E-shaped, though courtyards between the arms have been filled in with late 19th-century brick extensions. The main block is three stories high, with side wings of two stories and an attic. The south-east front has a five-window range, and incorporates a 19th-century infilling extension with a recessed entrance porch. The porch features an ornate, Jacobin-style two-story ashlar door surround, an oriel window, ornate cresting, and a shaped gable, flanked by advanced pavilions of three stories with ornate balustrades. The flanking gables on this front are accompanied by projecting two-story bay windows with ornate balusters. The rear of the house mirrors the south-east front, but the 19th-century infilling extension projects, featuring a two-story hipped wing with a projecting two-story bay window. The south-west side presents a five-window front, with the second and fourth bays advanced and rising into a third story with gables projecting past the eaves. There is a projecting single-story bay window in the central bay. The north-east side is extended by a two-story wing, with a seven-window front including a projecting single window bay to the left and two window bays to the right, in a style matching the main block. A recessed four-window link of plain brick with segmental arched casements connects these features. The rear of this extension wing features an eight-window range of casements within segmental-arched openings.

The interior retains good, restored 18th-century plasterwork in the hall and late 16th-century panelling in the dining room, including a mid-18th century staircase.