Leonard Rome Guthrie (1880 in

Leeds Leeds () is a city and the administrative centre of the City of Leeds district in West Yorkshire, England. It is built around the River Aire and is in the eastern foothills of the Pennines. It is also the third-largest settlement (by popula ...

– 1958 in Blyth, Suffolk) was an English architect. He joined the Wimperis & Simpson partnership in 1925 to form Wimperis, Simpson and Guthrie.

Works

His works included: * In 1912,

Townhill Park House Townhill Park House is a Grade II listed former manor house between the neighbouring housing estates of Townhill Park in Southampton and Chartwell Green in Eastleigh. History The Manor of Townhill was granted to Sir William Paulet by Henry ...

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. Italianate Gardens with planting schemes by Gertrude Jekyll. * Between 1926 and 1931,

Grosvenor House Grosvenor House was one of the largest townhouses in London, home of the Grosvenor family (better known as the Dukes of Westminster) for more than a century. Their original London residence was on Millbank, but after the family had developed ...

, Park Lane London. The design was started by Guthrie but finished by Edwin Lutyens. * In 1929, the

University of London Observatory UCL Observatory (called the University of London Observatory until 2015) at Mill Hill in London is an astronomical teaching observatory. It is part of the Department of Physics and Astronomy at University College London. History The Observator ...

. * In the 1930s, the BBC transmitter building at the

Brookmans Park transmitting station The Brookmans Park transmitting station is a facility for medium wave (MW) broadcasting at Brookmans Park, Hertfordshire, north of London (). The station was built in the 1920s by the BBC as the first of a network of regional dual ("twin wave" w ...

near London, followed by others at Moorside Edge, Westerglen,

Washford Washford is a village on the Washford River in the civil parish of Old Cleeve, Somerset, England. The village is next to Cleeve Abbey, one of the best-preserved medieval monasteries in England. It centred in a valley close to the Bristol Channe ...

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Burghead Burghead ( sco, Burgheid or ''The Broch'', gd, Am Broch) is a small town in Moray, Scotland, about north-west of Elgin. The town is mainly built on a peninsula that projects north-westward into the Moray Firth, surrounding it by water on t ...

, Stagshaw, Start Point and

Droitwich Droitwich Spa (often abbreviated to Droitwich ) is an historic spa town in the Wychavon district in northern Worcestershire, England, on the River Salwarpe. It is located approximately south-west of Birmingham and north-east of Worcester. The ...

.Pawley, Edward (1972), ''BBC Engineering 1922-1972'', London, BBC, pp. 105-6. These buildings had impressive

Art Deco Art Deco, short for the French ''Arts Décoratifs'', and sometimes just called Deco, is a style of visual arts, architecture, and product design, that first appeared in France in the 1910s (just before World War I), and flourished in the Unite ...

facades in Portland Stone, and many of them survive. The Washford building is Grade II listed. * In 1932, as part of the firm Wimperis, Simpson and Guthrie and with Maurice Bloom:

Marine Gate, Brighton Marine Gate is a large block of flats built in 1939 to the design of architects Wimperis, Simpson and Guthrie. It stands to the East of the English seaside resort of Brighton bordering Whitehawk and Roedean, and is situated in the Rottingdean Coa ...

. * In 1936,

Winfield House Winfield House is an English townhouse in Regent's Park, central London and the official residence of the United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom. The grounds are , the second-largest private garden in London after that of Buckingham P ...

, the Official Ambassadorial residence of the U.S. Ambassador to the United Kingdom.

References

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