List of works by Edwin Lutyens


This list of works by Edwin Lutyens provides brief details of some of the houses, gardens, public buildings and memorials designed by Sir Edwin Landseer Lutyens.
Lutyens was a British architect known for imaginatively adapting traditional architectural styles to the requirements of his era. The architectural historian Gavin Stamp described him as "the greatest British architect of the twentieth century" and English Heritage identify him as "one of the greatest architects the country has ever produced". More than 500 of his creations have been placed on the National Heritage List for England.

United Kingdom

Houses and gardens

NameImageLocationCountyInitiatedCompletedNotes
Middleton Park,
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Middleton StoneyOxfordshire19351938Lutyens last country estate. Built for George Child Villiers, 9th Earl of Jersey.
58-59 South Street
MayfairLondon1936Mid 18th century house remodelled by Lutyens in 1936. Lutyens added a sunken garden to the house.
Abbey House
Barrow-in-FurnessCumbria19101914Guest-house built in the Tudor Revival style, of red ashlar and slate, for Vickers Ltd.
Abbotswood
Lower SwellGloucestershire19011901Alterations to an existing property, and the design of gardens, for Mark Fenwick, a banker and mine owner.
Berrydown Court
OvertonHampshire18971898Country house for Archibald Grove. Garden by Gertrude Jekyll with advice from William Robinson.
Castle Drogo
DrewsteigntonDevon19111930English country house borrowing styles of castle-building from the medieval and Tudor periods, along with more minimalist contemporary approaches.
Deanery Garden
SonningBerkshire18991901Arts and Crafts style house with garden laid out by Lutyens and planted by garden designer Gertrude Jekyll; one of the several commissions from Edward Hudson, founder of Country Life magazine.
Folly Farm
SulhamsteadBerkshire19061912Built around a 17th-century farmhouse, to which Lutyens made extensions in a neoclassical style around 1906, and then in a vernacular style around 1912, for metals trader Zachary Merton.
Goddards
AbingerSurrey18981900In a Tudor style, with gardens by Gertrude Jekyll, commissioned for charitable purposes by shipping magnate Frederick Mirrielees.
Heathcote
IlkleyWest Yorkshire19061908Villa representing Lutyens first comprehensive use of the Neoclassical style, and the precursor of later buildings in Edwardian Baroque style and those of New Delhi. Built for John Thomas Hemingway, wool merchant.
Hestercombe Gardens
West MonktonSomerset19041906Lutyens and Gertrude Jekyll laid out an Edwardian garden at Hestercombe House between 1904 and 1906 for the Hon E.W.B. Portman,
The Hoo
Willingdon and JevingtonEast Sussex19011902Earlier house encased and remodelled for a wealthy lawyer. Gardens with contributions by Gertrude Jekyll
Lindisfarne Castle
LindisfarneNorthumberland1901191416th Century castle remodelled as an Arts and Crafts style family home for Edward Hudson
Little Thakeham
HorshamSussex19021903Arts and Crafts style, Grade I listed private house designed for Ernest Blackburn, a pre-school headmaster who inherited a fortune, it is the first in which Lutyens mixed neoclassical architecture into his previously vernacular style.
Marshcourt
Marsh Court, StockbridgeHampshire19011905Arts and Crafts style in ashlar, with a Tudor exterior employing lines of black flint and red tile. Built for Herbert Johnson, a fortunate London Stock Exchange trader.
Middlefield
StaplefordCambridgeshire19081909Red-brick mansion with prominent chimneystacks and large hipped roofs, designed for Henry Bond, a Cambridge don.
Millmead House
BramleySurrey19041907Small country house built for Gertrude Jekyll
Monkton House
West DeanWest Sussex19021902For Willie James. Later remodelled by Edward James, utilising the talents of Christopher Nicholson, Hugh Casson and Salvador Dalí to create a rare example of a Surrealist country house.
Munstead Wood
Munstead Heath, BusbridgeSurrey18891897A very early commission for Gertrude Jekyll, an Arts and Crafts style house inspired by local vernacular architecture.
New Place
Shirrell HeathHampshire19041906Incorporates the interior of an early 17th century mansion in Bristol. Now a hotel.
Orchards
BramleySurrey18971899Like Munstead Wood, an Arts and Crafts style house inspired by local vernacular architecture, an early commission for William and Julia Chance.
Overstrand Hall
OverstrandNorfolk18991901Pevsner describes it as "one of most remarkable buildings" employing a range of materials drawing from diverse architectural styles.
Penheale Manor
EgloskerryCornwall1920Gardens, and extensions with a new wing to the house, for Captain Norman Colville.
Snatchup End Cottages
ApsleyHertfordshire1898Irregular grouping of two and three storey cottages in a vernacular style, with tile hung upper floors and gabled, gambrel and hipped tiled roofs.
Tigbourne Court
WormleySurrey18991901In an Arts and Crafts style strongly influenced by local vernacular architecture, built for businessman Edgar Horne. Described by Ian Nairn as "probably best" building.

India

Lutyens was invited, with others, in 1912 to advise the Government of India on planning for a proposed new centre of government to be built in Delhi and named New Delhi. He became the project's leading architect, giving rise to Lutyens' Delhi, encompassing the street plan and key government buildings, and his name is lent to the Lutyens Bungalow Zone of domestic properties for government officers. A number of other architects, notably Herbert Baker, were responsible for the city's other key buildings.
NameImageInitiatedCompletedNotes
Baroda House
19211936Residence of the Maharaja of Baroda in Delhi
Hyderabad House
19261928Residence of Osman Ali Khan, Nizam VII, an amalgam of the Mughal and European architecture
India Gate
19171931A memorial to the dead of the British India Army in World War I, in the form of a triumphal arch.
Jaipur Column
19121930Monumental column celebrating the 1911 Delhi Durbar and the transfer of the capital of India from Calcutta to Delhi.
Janpath
1931Janpath – "people's way" – is the main north–south road through New Delhi, the layout of which was planned by Lutyens.
National Archives of India
One of a planned four museum buildings to occupy quadrants around the intersection of Janpath and Rajpath, the National Archives building was the only one constructed.
Patiala House
The former residence of the Maharaja of Patiala, now a district court building.
Rajpath
1931Rajpath – "King's way" – is an east–west ceremonial boulevard through the centre of New Delhi, linking Rashtrapathi Bhavan with India Gate, and location for the annual Delhi Republic Day parade.
Rashtrapathi Bhavan
19121929Designed as the Viceroy's House for the Governor-General of India during the British Raj period, and now the official home of the President of India