Homewood is an
Arts and Crafts style country house in
Knebworth
Knebworth is a village and civil parish in the north of Hertfordshire, England, immediately south of Stevenage. The civil parish covers an area between the villages of Datchworth, Woolmer Green, Codicote, Kimpton, Whitwell, St Paul's Wald ...
, Hertfordshire, England. Designed and built by architect
Edwin Lutyens
Sir Edwin Landseer Lutyens ( ; 29 March 1869 – 1 January 1944) was an English architect known for imaginatively adapting traditional architectural styles to the requirements of his era. He designed many English country houses, war memorials ...
around 1900–3, using a mixture of
vernacular
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and
Neo-Georgian architecture, it is a Grade II*
listed building
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.
The house was one of Lutyens' first experiments in the addition of classical features to his previously vernacular style,
[Gradidge (1981), pp. 46–9.] and the introduction of symmetry into his plans.
[Butler (2003), pp. 31–6.] The gardens, also designed by Lutyens, are Grade II listed in the
National Register of Historic Parks and Gardens #REDIRECT Register of Historic Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England #REDIRECT Register of Historic Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England
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It was built at the southern end of Park Wood on the Lyttons' Knebworth estate, about southeast of
and plain tiles.