STABLES AT LITTLE HORWOOD MANOR

STABLES AT LITTLE HORWOOD MANOR, WARREN ROAD

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Overview

Stables range of 1938-39 by A S G Butler for Little Horwood Manor, a hunting box. Read the official list entry to find out more.

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1392435
Date first listed:: 05-Mar-2008
List Entry Name:: STABLES AT LITTLE HORWOOD MANOR
Statutory Address:: STABLES AT LITTLE HORWOOD MANOR, WARREN ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1392435
Date first listed:: 05-Mar-2008
List Entry Name:: STABLES AT LITTLE HORWOOD MANOR
Statutory Address 1:: STABLES AT LITTLE HORWOOD MANOR, WARREN ROAD

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:: STABLES AT LITTLE HORWOOD MANOR, WARREN ROAD

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

District:: Buckinghamshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Little Horwood
National Grid Reference:: SP7920831638

Reasons for Designation

REASONS FOR DESIGNATION DECISION Little Horwood Manor should be listed at Grade II, for the following principal reasons: * The stable block of a notable hunting box complex, akin to a small country house, by ASG Butler, a well-regarded early C20 architect and biographer of Sir Edwin Lutyens. * Stands alongside and close to the house sharing the same materials and overall design themes. * Despite the subdivision and residential conversion the stables survives little altered on its main external facades. * Given the nature of the complex the stables are essential to its identity.

Details

LITTLE HORWOOD

252/0/10009 WARREN ROAD 05-MAR-08 Stables at Little Horwood Manor

II Stables range of 1938-39 by A S G Butler for Little Horwood Manor, a hunting box.

MATERIALS: Dark buff/brown brick with stone detailing and red tile roofs.

PLAN: Quadrangular.

EXTERIOR: The former stables block stands west of Little Horwood Manor. It is in the same overall style as the house with a quadrangular plan, the front and rear ranges of two storeys and those to the sides of one. There are central front and rear gateway-entrances with a clock tower to the front rising from the ridgeline. Tower-like projections with pyramidal roofs at each corner give the stables a slightly martial appearance.

INTERIOR: Not inspected. The complex provided four flats, presumably for grooms and servants, as well as 14 or more loose boxes.

HISTORY: Little 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. The site chosen was relatively high ground about a mile north of Little Horwood village, alongside the existing Manor Farm complex. It was supposedly intended to be used as a hunting box, Gee being a keen supporter of the Whaddon Chase Hunt, and this tradition seems borne out by the evidence of the building itself. Reportedly Gee was challenged in the hunting field by one of the Rothschilds to get his new house up in under a year, which was achieved.

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, although it seems fairly clear the stables were used, inter alia, to house Italian Prisoners-of-War. After World War II Little Horwood Manor 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.

SOURCES: N. Pevsner and E. Williamson, Buildings of England: Buckinghamshire (2000), 109, 438; Oxford DNB, sv Percy Thrower; sales catalogues in Buckinghamshire Local Studies Library; A S G Butler's obituary in RIBA Library.

REASONS FOR DESIGNATION DECISION Little Horwood Manor is listed at Grade II, for the following principal reasons: * The stable block of a notable hunting box complex, akin to a small country house, by ASG Butler, a well-regarded early C20 architect and biographer of Sir Edwin Lutyens. * Stands alongside and close to the house (which is separately listed) sharing the same materials and overall design themes. * Despite the subdivision and residential conversion the stables survives little altered on its main external facades. * Given the nature of the complex the stables are essential to its identity.

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:: 503774
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Williamson, E, The Buildings of England: Buckinghamshire, (2000)

Legal

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