LOWICKS.
1894
Sandy Lane, Tilford, near Frensham, Surrey.
For E. J. Horniman.
Extended and altered by Voysey in
1898, 1904, 1907 and 1911.
1911 new summer house.
Lowicks, Moderne Bauformen (vol.13, 1914), p.243
.
Voysey, Lowicks, Moderne Bauformen, vol.13, 1914, p.243.
Lowicks, Moderne Bauformen (vol.13, 1914), p.241.
Lowicks, Moderne Bauformen (vol.13, 1914), p.242.
Lowicks, Summer house, Moderne Bauformen (vol.13, 1914), p.244.
Lowicks, Moderne Bauformen (vol.13, 1914), p.242
.
Photo with the original veranda.
Photo on paradisebackyard.blogspot.com (RIBA)
Lowicks with a reconstructed modern veranda.
Photo by mvjcuttitta on picuki.com.
Photo
courtesy of John Turner
On the left is the modern version of the veranda.
Photo courtesy of John Turner
Photo courtesy of John Turner
Lowicks, photo courtesy of John Trotter
Photo courtesy of John Turner
Photo courtesy of John Turner
Photo courtesy of John Turner
Photo courtesy of John Turner
Lowicks, photo courtesy of John Trotter
Lowicks, photo by Voysey Society on Twitter
Lowicks, photo courtesy of John Trotter
Lowicks, Sitting room, Illustrierte kunsgewerbliche Zeitschrift, 1898
The Studio, International Art Magazine (1897)
The Studio, International Art Magazine (1897)
Lowicks, photo courtesy of John Trotter
Lowicks, photo courtesy of John Trotter
Lowicks, photo courtesy of John Trotter
Lowicks, photo courtesy of John Trotter
Lowicks, photo by Voysey Society on Twitter
Lowicks, photo courtesy of John Trotter
Lowicks, photo courtesy of John Trotter
Lowicks, House at Frensham,
Entrance Court.
The Studio, International Art Magazine (1897).
RIBA Photographs Collection.
Image from The British Architect, 9th November 1894.
Image from The British Architect, 9th November 1894.
Image from The British Architect, 9th November 1894.
Text from The British Architect, 9th November 1894, p.325.
Lowicks, Ground plan, published in Studio, vol. 21, 1901, p.246
Lowicks, Frensham, First Floor Plan, RIBA Drawings Collection
Lowicks, photo by Voysey Society on Twitter
Link > RIBA
The entry in Pevsner's Surrey (with Ian Nairn and Bridget Cherry, 1971) reads:
LOWICKS. On the E side of Frensham Common, and hard to get at. A simple and very typical Voysey house, of 1894. Exactly like an enlarged lodge – single mass, battered corner buttresses, battered chimneys, slate roofs and roughcast walls. Inset dormers and just one half-timbered gable at the back. Delightful situation with pine woods all around and a tiny wild lake in front; the simple, low-toned house fits it like a glove. [Alterations and additions, all by Voysey, in 1898, 1904, 1907, and 1911.]
Source: Pevsner Architectural Guides at Yale University Press.
Link > www.voyseysociety.org
Description on Historic England
SU 84SE FRENSHAM C.P. SANDY
LANE
4/58 Lowicks House
3/5/73 including garden wall
II
House. 1894 by C. A. Voysey for E. J. Horniman,
extended and altered by Voysey in 1898, 1904, 1907 and 1911. Whitewashed
roughcast with tall, hipped slate roofs. L- shaped plan, wing to north later.
Single storey with attics under a double row of dormers to east and west ends.
South-East Front - battering buttresses to ends and deep eaves on thin metal
brackets with scrolled ends. Massive battering, ridge stack to right, square
stack to left. Three flat roofed, through-eaves dormers to front, flat roofed
ground floor projection with continuous casement fenestration on left end,
wrapping around the corner. Double casement doors to left, glazed door to right
behind porch on 3 wooden columns, completing the ground floor projection across
the whole front. South-West Front - One flat-roofed, 5-light dormer over two,
through-eaves dormers on first floor. Glazed double doors in left hand dormer
giving onto balcony formed by the roof of a ground floor projection to left.
Single storey, polygonal window to ground floor right. North-West Front -
(former entrance front) Drip course over ground floor. Square bay to right,
single storey, and continuous through-eaves window to centre. Timber framed
hipped roof,dormer to centre, square, with a 5-light window on the front.
Half-glazed door to centre under flat hood on metal hangers. Projecting later
wing to left. North-East Front - Now entrance. Hipped end of main house to left
with two dormers and two ground floor casement windows under drip moulding.
Gable end to right with one window on each floor. Half-glazed door to central,
single storey range in arched porch recess and under triangular dormer single
storey range of service buildings to left end of entrance front, returning to
south to form garden wall. Roughcast with tile coping and square end piers. Wall
6 feet high to northern end, 10 feet high to southern end as the ground drops
away. Arched gateways to each end with planked door in northern door under hood
and up three steps.
PEVSNER: Buildings of England, Surrey (1971) p.357. JOHN BRANDON JONES (&
OTHERS): C. F. A. VOYSEY: Architect and Designer 1857-1941 (1978) Exhibition
Catalogue pp. 33 and 45.
Photographs
and Drawings Courtesy of The Royal Institute of British Architects.
Photographs, drawings, perspectives and other design patterns
at the
Royal Institut of British Architects Drawings and Photographs Collection.
Images can
be purchased.
The RIBA
can supply you with conventional photographic or digital copies
of any of the images featured in RIBApix.
Link >
RIBA Drawings Collection: Lowicks
Link > RIBA Drawings Collection: all Voysey images
Link > Black & White images by Heinz Theuerkauf (1976)
Link > www.victorianweb.org
Link >
www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk
PEVSNER:
Buildings of England, Surrey (1971) p.357.
JOHN BRANDON JONES (& OTHERS): C. F. A. VOYSEY: Architect and Designer 1857-1941
(1978)
Exhibition Catalogue pp. 33 and 45.
References:
The Studio, Vol.11,
pp. 16-25,
"The Revival of
English Domestic Architecture.
VI. The Work of Mr. C. F. A. Voysey." (https://archive.org)
The Studio, XI, 1897, p. 16, 18 & 23; XXI, 1901, p. 246.
The British Architect, XLII, 1894, p. 328.
Builder's Journal & Architectural Record, 1896, IV, p. 69.
The House, IV, 1898-99, p. 162.
Moderne Bauformen (vol.13, 1914), pp.241-44.
David Gebhard, Charles. F. A. Voysey, figs. 45-50.
Wendy Hitchmough, CFA VOYSEY, Phaidon Press, London 1995, pp.71-73.
Briggs, M. S. "Voysey, Charles Francis Annesley
(1857-1941)", rev. Wendy Hitchmough.
Oxford Dictionary of National
Biography. Online ed. Web. 29 April 2011.
"Lowicks House including Garden Wall, Frensham" (Listed Buildings text). Web. 29 April 2011.
Nairn, Ian and Nikolaus Pevsner. The Buildings of England. Surrey. London: Penguin, 2nd ed. 1971.