Homewood, Knebworth, Stevenage, England

The following is from the English Heritage Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest.

An early 20th-century modest country house with contemporary formal and informal gardens, the whole designed by Edwin Lutyens, around 1901.

LOCATION, AREA, BOUNDARIES, LANDFORM, SETTING

Homewood lies 500 metres south-east of the centre of the village of Old Knebworth, 4 kilometres south of the centre of Stevenage. The roughly 3 hectare site is bounded to the north by Park Wood, to the west by a track known as Dowager's Lane which provides access from the village of Old Knebworth, and to the south and east by open agricultural land. The land is largely level, falling gently away at the eastern boundary. The setting is rural, with several 20th-century dwellings set in the northern half of Park Wood, screened by woodland trees. Views extend across the agricultural land to the south and east, overlooking the A1(M) to the east and beyond this towards distant hills. Views from the western boundary overlook fields to the west and the back of the village. Knebworth House lies one kilometre to the north-west, with its associated gardens and parkland.

REFERENCES Used by English Heritage

L Weaver, Houses and gardens by E L Lutyens (1913), pp 63-6

B Cherry and N Pevsner, The Buildings of England: Hertfordshire (1977), p 221

J Brown, Gardens of a Golden Afternoon (1982), p 165

Maps

E L Lutyens, Homewards Site Plan, 5 December 1901 (private collection)

OS 6" to 1 mile: 1st edition 1884; 2nd edition 1899

OS 25" to 1 mile: 1st edition 1881; 2nd edition 1898