Pinfold Manor

Pinfold Manor is a house constructed between 1912 and 1913, designed by P Morley Horder for David Lloyd George. It is built of silver-grey brick with red brick dressings, and has a clay tile roof. Extensions to the north and east were made shortly after its initial construction.

The north-facing entrance front features a service wing. The entrance is framed by residual pilasters in red brick and flanked by sash windows set beneath shallow curved brick heads. A staircase is prominently expressed as a block in the angle between the entrance and service wings, and a broad, tile-hung gable is punctuated by a single window. The south or garden front has a roof that sweeps down to a loggia with two tile-hung gables above supported by brick columns with tile tops. An east-facing gabled bay is faced in silver-grey and red brick with two large casement windows incorporating side sashes. A gabled wing at the south end of the east front features a decorative chimney stack, and the elevation has a free arrangement of windows. A single-storey section on the north end of the east front is part of the post-1912 addition. The interior’s planning and decoration are not particularly remarkable, but good fireplaces remain in the study, dining room, and westernmost bedroom upstairs.

Pinfold Manor was being built for David Lloyd George, then Chancellor of the Exchequer in Asquith’s Liberal government. Due to Asquith's perceived hesitancy regarding women’s suffrage, the Women’s Social and Political Union (WSPU), founded by Emmeline Pankhurst in 1903, targeted the house. In February 1913, two bombs were placed in the house during construction; one failed to ignite, but the other caused substantial damage. Emmeline Pankhurst subsequently took responsibility for the action on behalf of the WSPU.