Middlefield And Garden Wall

TL 45 SE STAPLEFORD HAVERHILL ROAD (North West Side) Middlefield and 5/199 Garden Wall

II*

House, 1908 by Lutyens for the legal scholar Henry Bond. Small, narrow red brick with big, hipped roofs, tiled, and deep eaves, part boarded on south side. Guttering enriched with acorn inials. Three tall internal stalks, the outer ones having recessed centre panels and all with moulded stone cornices to entablatures. Symmetrical plan of single range having lower flanking wings projecting as crosswings on the north side. Lower adjoining service wings to the east. Two storeys and attic. North elevation has two hipped dormers on either side of one segmental dormer, all with leaded lights. Range of flush frame hung sashes with half round moulded glazing bars and open boxing. Pedimented central doorway with doorcase of pilasters with pulvinated frieze. Above and forming a single composition with the doorway is a larger, similar hung sash with a swept surround and flanking pilasters. The crosswings have moulded brick band and bulls eye windows with leaded lights. The south side to the garden has two, two-storey canted bays flanking three similar hung sashes, the ground floor ones in segmental arches. Three hipped dormers in the roof, flanked by original oval, glazed panels. The wings have one tripartite hung sash to each storey except for the right hand wing which has a loggia. Adjoining to the east is an original garden wall, shaped and in three bays with part red brick piers and tiled coping. Interior: Most of the details from the original house have remained intact, including the fireplace surrounds on the ground floor and the staircase with its turned balusters and large single, twisted column as a stair pillar. Weaver L: Houses and Gardens by E.L. Lutyens (p.232) Hussey C: Life of Sir Edwin Lutyens Pevsner: (Buildings of England) p.459 V.C.H: Vol VIII p.229

Listing NGR: TL4799152892