| Description | Courtyard and entrance walls for Heathcote House (PRN 9765). Heathcote House is a 3 storey, Grade II* Listed, Classical villa built in 1906 8 by E. Lutyens for Ernest Hemingway, a Bradford merchant. It is situated within formal gardens, also designed by E. Lutyen along with G. Jekyll (see PRN 6891), which are a Grade II Registered Park and Garden.
Both the courtyard and entrance walls are contemporary with house (1906 8), and designed by E. Lutyens. The walls are constructed from coursed rubble with heavy coping, and feature central, moulded wooden gates that are flanked by piers and walling extending to the outbuildings and cottages, located to the west. The courtyard walls extend from the house and converge in a semi circle on the entrance. They also have openings at both the east and west with piers, and four pierced metal lamps on the interior of the courtyard wall.
There are a number of other contemporary buildings and architectural features associated with Heathcote House which are also Listed Grade II*. These include a pair of cottages, outbuildings, terrace (with steps and fountains) and two apses on the boundary walls either side of the main house (see PRNs 9767 – 9773 for further details).
(Text edited from English Heritage’s LBO description)
In January 2014 English Heritage visited Heathcote House (PRN 9765) in order to assess whether it should be upgraded to Grade I. At the same time English Heritage also wrote short updated descriptions about a number of the House’s associated outbuildings and garden features (many of which are listed in their own right). See PRNs 9767, 9768, 9769, 9771, 9772, 9773, 13541, 13542 for further details)
Facing onto Kings Road is a high entrance wall of narrow, shaped and coursed rubblestone with ashlar coping and banded, rusticated quoins at the junction of the semi circular curve to the central gateway and at the right hand end. The gateway has tall ashlar piers topped by stone urns with decorative ironwork double gates. On the left hand side of the wall are two round headed openings flanking a smaller, square opening, all with giant, banded voussoirs. Recessed inside the round headed openings are segmental arched windows (lighting the laundry). Within the entrance gateway is a forecourt enclosed by walls which extend from the house and converge in a semi circle on the entrance. There are east and west openings in the forecourt walls with stone piers topped by urns, and decorative iron double gates. In the centre of the central, circular grassed area is a circular planter with moulded edging stones, which is historic fabric but not part of Lutyens' original design (it does not appear on 1910 Country Life photograph).
(Text edited from English Heritage’s 2014 consultation report) |