On the corner of Holland Road, THE HOMESTEAD, 1905-6
by Voysey. The client was SC Turner, general manager of the Essex & Suffolk
Equitable Insurance Society, whose head office was in Colchester. It is in
Voysey's unmistakeable, homely and sensitively proportioned and detailed
style. The house should be looked at from the corner so that the difference
of levels comes out. L-plan, with a large parlour occupying most of the
Second Avenue front and an octagonal dining room at the corner. Most of the
return along Holland Avenue is a service wing. Walls of roughcast brick,
stone window dressings, red tiles on edge round the entrance arch, the roofs
of green slate. The interior is fully fitted with original doors, cupboards,
staircase etc.
Description on Historic
England
FRINTON AND WALTON SECOND AVENUE, TM 21 NW FRINTON-ON-SEA 8/47 No. 43, The
Homestead 18.5.79 II* House. Circa 1905-6. C.F.A. Voysey for A.C. Turner. Rough
rendered brick. Stone window surrounds and mullions. Green slate roofs. L-plan.
2 storeys with attics to gables. The east face to Second Avenue with a chimney
turret off centre left, this with left and right windows to each floor. Three, 3
light windows to first floor. 4 vari-light windows to ground floor, all windows
square leaded, tiled pentices over. North face to Holland Road. Tall double
gable to left, 2 feature gables to right. Off centre and right external rough
rendered chimney stacks. Attic window to left gable. 2:1:1 first floor
vari-light windows, 1:6 vari-light ground floor windows similar to east face.
Pilaster to left of 6 light window. Flag stone path approach to the red tiled
round headed porch arch, 3 steps within the porch, nailed vertically boarded
door. Wooden gutters supported by iron brackets. Single storey extension to
right with roof hipped to right, vertically boarded door.
References:
The British Architect, LXV, 1906, p. 310; LXVII,
1907, p. 370.
The Studio Yearbook, 1908.
Country Life, 1 October 1910.
Moderne Bauformen,
X, 1911, pp. 251-2.
M. Macartney,
Recent English Domestic Architecture, 1911, pp.
167, 169-170.
L. Weaver, The
House and its Equipment, 1912, pp. 18 & 20.
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