LITTLE WINCH

LITTLE WINCH, THE COMMON

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1100809
Date first listed:: 03-Oct-1985
List Entry Name:: LITTLE WINCH
Statutory Address:: LITTLE WINCH, THE COMMON

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1100809
Date first listed:: 03-Oct-1985
List Entry Name:: LITTLE WINCH
Statutory Address 1:: LITTLE WINCH, THE COMMON

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: LITTLE WINCH, THE COMMON

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Hertfordshire
District:: Three Rivers (District Authority)
Parish:: Sarratt
National Grid Reference:: TL 03833 01182

Details

TL 00 SW 474/2/350 03.10.85

SARRATT THE COMMON (South side) Chipperfield Little Winch

II*

House. 1935 by M. Fry for George Butler. Brick, with tile-hung timber-framed first floor studio. Flat roof. International Modern Style. Two storeys with a taller block to right. Entrance front has projecting entrance bay to left of centre with a large fixed window on the ground floor, a first floor 2-light casement and entrance in right return. Bay to left is plain. To right a covered walk with hood over ground floor on 3 posts, first floor 4-light horizontal window. To right and set back is taller block. Ground floor rendered with an entrance to left, two-light casement to centre, garage to right. Tilehung first floor, originally weatherboarded, has a large 5 x 2-light horizontal window. Oversailing eaves throughout. Garden elevation is largely glazed, ground floor has projecting continuous glazing to living room returned to right, elsewhere three- and four-light horizontal windows, with tilehanging to studio. INTERIOR: The house is entered beneath a canopy which gives on to a small hallway with green tiling and a wooden staircase with an open balustrade. The window beside the door gives a view through the house to the garden. From the hall one moves to the spacious living room, where there are thin steel columns to support the walls behind the projecting windows. A stove is built into the alcove, flanked by original shelving, with a broad display shelf on top. This allows for sitting by the fire while facing out towards the view. A folding partition originally divided the dining area from the rest of the dining room if required, but the fine hardwood floor runs straight through. Dog-leg staircase with open decorative steel handrail leads to three main bedrooms and a maid's room in a row, and a studio (not inspected) with a higher ceiling and raised dais. Little Winch was originally designed to be built in reinforced concrete but Watford R.D.C. insisted on traditional construction. The house is deliberately simple and minimal, though its cupboards, floorings and use of timber are exceptionally fine. `Modern architecture is an attitude to life as much as to materials and wine would go into a bottle whatever it was made of' (Maxwell Fry, Architectural Sketches, 1973). Though originally seen as a compromise, Little Winch marked an influential progression from the concept of the modern movement as an architectural style entirely of white concrete, towards a less austere synthesis that came to fruition only in the 1950s.

SOURCES

Cherry and Pevsner, Buildings of England, 1977 Architecture in Hertfordshire, 1929-1979 (exh.cat.) Architectural Review, January 1936, pp.25-6 F R S Yorke, The Modern House in England, 1945 edition, pp.14-15, 73-4 Alan Powers and Edward Mills, The Modern House, Twentieth Century Society, October 1996

Listing NGR: TL0383301182

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 158922
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Cherry, B, The Buildings of England: Hertfordshire, (1977)
Powers, A, Mills, E, The Modern House, (1996)
Yorke, F R S , The Modern House in England, (1944), 14-15 73-4
'Hertfordshire Association of Architects' in Architecture in Hertfordshire 1929-1979, (1979)
'Architectural Review' in January, (1936), 25-6

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.