Munstead Wood Hut

The Munstead Wood Hut is a house dating from 1894 to 1895, designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens for Gertrude Jekyll. It is whitewashed roughcast with plain tiled roofs, half-hipped with gablets, and tile hanging to the end on the left. The building has a T-shaped plan, incorporating a cross wing for the living room on the right. It is a single-storey structure, with attics to the left, lit by two gabled leaded casement dormers. The building features a massive corbelled multiple stack in the centre of the left range, a detached corbelled stack to the right, and a smaller stack to the rear. There are two leaded wood-framed windows on the ground floor to the left, and a single leaded window within the gable end of the outhouse range at the left end, which is tile-hung with a truncated stack. The right wing’s living room features a half-hipped end, with a five-light window above double casement doors, beneath a tile-on-edge lintel. Further doors are located to the rear left. The living room interior displays a three-bay roof with Queen-strut trusses and a large fireplace to the right. The grounds surrounding the house were formerly part of the Jekyll gardens at Munstead Wood and are recognized in the Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England – Part 40, Surrey.