EAW016601 ENGLAND (1948). Little Horwood Manor, Little Horwood, from the south, 1948. This image has been produced from a print.

© Copyright OpenStreetMap contributors and licensed by the OpenStreetMap Foundation. 2024. Cartography is licensed as CC BY-SA.

Nearby Images (25)

EAW016601
  0° 0m
EAW016597
  9° 18m
EAW016599
  34° 26m
EAW008232
  293° 29m
EAW011449
  1° 29m
EAW011446
  1° 30m
EAW008230
  191° 59m
EAW011448
  345° 66m
EAW011450
  8° 68m
EAW011451
  317° 75m
EAW011447
  346° 97m
EAW005542
  264° 125m
EAW008227
  214° 126m
EAW008229
  255° 146m
EAW005539
  278° 167m
EAW008228
  100° 168m
EAW005540
  285° 179m
EAW005536
  301° 180m
EAW008231
  229° 185m
EAW005537
  275° 206m
EAW008234
  137° 206m
EAW016598
  28° 221m
EAW008235
  222° 234m
EAW005541
  271° 237m
EAW008233
  227° 292m

Details

Title [EAW016601] Little Horwood Manor, Little Horwood, from the south, 1948. This image has been produced from a print.
Reference EAW016601
Date 16-July-1948
Link
Place name LITTLE HORWOOD
Parish LITTLE HORWOOD
District
Country ENGLAND
Easting / Northing 479261, 231593
Longitude / Latitude -0.84591151180846, 51.976714862248
National Grid Reference SP793316

Pins

Little Horwood Manor, with West Wing Service Buildings, Gardener's Cottage, and Garden Walls and Gat, Little Horwood (MK17 0PU) Grade 2 listed premises- English Heritage Building ID: 503417 Horwood Manor was commissioned in 1938 by George Gee, an industrialist and partner in Gee Walker Slater (GWS), a major engineering and building firm. The architect was A S G Butler. It was supposedly intended to be used as a hunting box, Gee being a keen supporter of the Whaddon Chase Hunt It has a butterfly plan, and is built of a dark buff brick with stone detailing (some of it eccentrically placed in a way that is hard to explain) and tiled roofs, reinforced steel joists are used to support the ground floor, and possibly in other elements of its construction. Flanking walls lead from the end towers to two-storey pavilions (each now a separate residence), one a former garage and the other once the gardener's cottage. A short service range, mainly single-storey garages (that behind the western pavilion converted to a house in the 1980s) and a former lavatory block (also converted for domestic use) extends the west range beyond the former garage. The house was apparently never used by Gee and during the war it was requisitioned by the government. Various stories relate to this period in the house's history when it reputedly served as an out-station to Bletchley Park. After the war the building was sold, and remained mothballed until 1984 when it was subdivided into five main freehold properties; the stables were similarly subdivided and converted to four residential units.

totoro
Sunday 30th of November 2014 03:41:16 PM
Stables at Little Horwood Manor, Little Horwood Grade 2 listed - English Heritage Building ID: 503774 Stables range of 1938-39 by A S G Butler for Little Horwood Manor, a hunting box. After 1984 the stables were subdivided and converted to four residential units. Despite the subdivision and residential conversion the stables survives little altered on its main external facades.

totoro
Sunday 30th of November 2014 03:36:17 PM