Tigbourne Court

Tigbourne Court is a large house built between 1899 and 1901 by Sir Edwin Lutyens for Sir Edgar Horne. It was designed in a 17th-century vernacular classical style, with a billiard room added in 1910 by Horace Farquharson. The construction incorporates galleted Bargate stone blocks, brick quoins, and thin horizontal bands of tiles, all under plain tiled roofs. The house features a central triple-gabled range with single-storey wings projecting at each end, terminating in large coupled chimneys flanked by curved screen walls.

The main three-storey range has a triple gable and a front stack to the right. The top floor has brick-dressed two-light leaded casement windows in each gable, while below are three finely detailed "cross" windows under brick open pediments, incorporating segmental outer pediments and a triangular central pediment. A Doric portico in antis provides access to the ground floor, with paired columns and end pilasters leading to a central door. Paired diagonal brick stacks are positioned at the ends of the single-storey flanking walls. Concave screen walls extend at the ends, featuring hipped ends over piers to tiled pentice coping. An arched door is centrally positioned, flanked by single-light square windows, with an egg-shaped panel above. The right-hand return front displays double gables to the left with leaded attic windows, and large stone-mullioned, eight-light windows on the first floor. Below are an eight-light and a twelve-light window. A stone panel is situated on the first floor between the gables, above a round-arched door. A single-storey wing with a hipped roof is located to the right. The left-hand return front is dominated by a large central gable. A single-storey billiard room extends to the left. The rear of the house features a block to the left with three first-floor windows and two ground-floor arches. A single-storey corridor runs across the centre, with a large gable above. A hipped roof range, featuring a large brick stack, extends to the right.

The original interior plan included a central loggia entrance opening into a long, narrow hall running the width of the house. A central stairwell incorporates a single-flight return stair, inspired by a design by Norman Shaw, with turned balusters and colonnades on the upper flight. A barrel-vaulted front room to the left includes an Ionic pilaster screen and Doric columns flanking the fireplace, topped by a panelled overmantel. The hall contains a stone-flagged floor and a panelled ceiling with a central roundel depicting foliage and fruit.