Little Thakeham

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Little Thakeham is an early 20th-century English country house in West Sussex, celebrated as one of Edwin Lutyens’s finest Arts and Crafts–influenced domestic designs.

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Little Thakeham canonical 1
Little Thakeham House 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Arts and Crafts house
country house
listed building
architect Edwin Lutyens
architecturalStyle Arts and Crafts movement
surface form: Arts and Crafts

vernacular revival
associatedWith Gertrude Jekyll
completionDate 1902
constructionStartDate 1901
country England
describedAs one of Edwin Lutyens’s finest small country houses
designedFor Ernest Blackburn
distanceFrom near Storrington, West Sussex
hasAlternativeName Little Thakeham
surface form: Little Thakeham House
hasBasement yes
hasFeature axial garden layout
courtyard plan
formal entrance court
formal garden terraces
gabled roofs
great hall
loggia
long gallery-like living spaces
massive chimney stacks
mullioned windows
walled garden
hasGardenDesigner Edwin Lutyens
hasMaterial local sandstone
tile-hung upper storeys
hasOutbuilding garden structures
service wing
hasPlanType asymmetrical plan
hasStoreys 2
heritageDesignation Grade I listed building
heritageDesignationDate 1958
influencedBy Arts and Crafts movement
Surrey vernacular architecture
locatedIn Thakeham
West Sussex
notableFor careful use of local materials
integration of house and garden design
picturesque massing
refined interior planning
period early 20th century
region South East England
roofMaterial clay tiles
use private residence

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Edwin Lutyens notableWork Little Thakeham
Little Thakeham hasAlternativeName Little Thakeham
this entity surface form: Little Thakeham House