Originally WALNUT TREE FARM.
Also known as Bannut Tree House,
now known as Bannut Farm House.
Castlemorton, Malvern, Hereford & Worcester.
1890
For R. H. Cazelet.
L-shaped house with a service wing.
Minor alterations and garden laid out by Voysey in 1894.
Photograph by Royal Pavilion Art Gallery and Museums
Photograph by Royal Pavilion Art Gallery and Museums
Walnut Tree Farm, Castlemorton, photo courtesy of John Trotter
Walnut Tree Farm, Castlemorton, photo courtesy of John Trotter
Walnut Tree Farm, Castlemorton, photo courtesy of John Trotter
Walnut Tree Farm, Castlemorton, photo courtesy of John Trotter
Walnut Tree Farm, Castlemorton, photo courtesy of John Trotter
Walnut Tree Farm, Castlemorton, photo courtesy of John Trotter
Walnut Tree Farm, Castlemorton, photo courtesy of John Trotter
Walnut Tree Farm, Castlemorton, photo courtesy of John Trotter
Walnut Tree Farm, Castlemorton, photo courtesy of John Trotter
Walnut Tree Farm, Castlemorton, photo courtesy of John Trotter
Walnut Tree Farm, Castlemorton, photo courtesy of John Trotter
Walnut Tree Farm, Castlemorton, Malvern,
photo on rightmove.co.uk
Walnut Tree Farm, Castlemorton, Malvern,
photo on rightmove.co.uk
Walnut Tree Farm, Castlemorton, Malvern,
photo on rightmove.co.uk
Walnut Tree Farm, Castlemorton, Malvern,
photo on rightmove.co.uk
Walnut Tree Farm, Castlemorton, Malvern,
photo on rightmove.co.uk
Image published in The British Architect, 14th December 1894.
Image from Duncan Simpson, C.F.A. VOYSEY an architect of individuality, p.33
Link > RIBA Drawings Collection
Published in David Gebhard,
Charles F. A. Voysey Architect, p. 105.
RIBA Drawings Collection
The three main rooms on the ground
floor are interconnected:
BEST PARLOUR - LIVING-ROOM - MORNING-ROOM.
Drawings
published in Stuart Durant, CFA Voysey, London
1992, p.27.
RIBA Drawings Collection
Published in The Britisch Architect, 24th October 1890.
Entrance front of Walnut Tree Farm from The British Architect,
13th December 1895, p.419.
Drawing by T. Raffles Davison.
Stables from The Britisch Architect, 24th October 1890
Walnut Tree Farm,
Photograph by H. J. L. Masse,
from The Studio,
International Art Magazine,
Vol. 11, 1897
Walnut Tree Farm, Living room.
Published in
The British Architect, 14th December 1894.
Text from The British Architect, 14th December 1894, p.459.
Walnut Tree Farm, corner of the nursery from The British
Architect, 14th December 1894, p.417.
Drawing by T. Raffles
Davison.
Photographs
and drawings courtesy of The Royal Institute of British Architects.
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be purchased.
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can supply you with conventional photographic or digital copies
of any of the images featured in RIBApix.
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RIBA: perspective of entrance front with inset plans
(preliminary design almost as executed)
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Description on Historic England
HOUSE
SO 73 NE CASTLEMORTON B 4208 1430/4/44 Bannut Tree House 23.02.1987 GV II*
Alternatively known as: WALNUT TREE FARM House. 1890, by C F A Voysey. Roughcast
with some applied timber-framing and tile roof. L-plan. One storey with attic.
Windows have timber mullions and leaded glazing in rectangular panes. South
facade, facing garden, has four gabled attic dormers with applied close-studding
above the windows. At the left is a smaller dormer with flat roof. The upper
storey oversails and is supported on buttresses. To the right of the first attic
dormer is a chimney, with a chimney breast on the ground floor which is splayed
at the left and contains a window: At first floor level is a plaque inscribed:
"1890". The recess to the right of the chimney breast has a window, with a small
window at the right against a buttress, lighting an inglenook. To the right of
this buttress is another recessed window. To the right, under the second gable,
is a window set forwards flush with the upper storey. Under the third gable a
flat-roofed timber porch projects forwards on a roughcast base. At the right of
the facade the upper storey forms a right-angle and the ground floor window is
canted, continuing on the return wall. To the right of the first gable is a
second chimney; forward of the ridge. At the rear the roof swept down to low
eaves and the doorway is protected by a tiled gabled canopy on brackets. The
house was originally known as Walnut Tree Farm: Preliminary and final designs
for the house,- with perspectives of the garden front; are in the RIBA drawings
collection (BOE; p ll5) INTERIOR largely complete with original features,
including fireplaces, ledged-and-braced doors with ornate wrought-iron hinges,
picture rails, window seats, unchamfered ceiling beams, and the staircase with
simple stick balustrade, moulded handrail and tall pointed newels.
SOURCE:
Nikolaus Pevsner, Buildings of England, Worcestershire, 1968, p.115.
STABLES
CASTLEMORTON CP B 4208 SO 73 NE Stables north of 4/45 Bannut Tree House and garden wall adjoining to east II GV Stables and wall. 1890 by C F A Voysey. Roughcast with tile roof. Single storey with loft. Four bays. Shallow horizontal windows are divided by timber mullions and have rectangular leaded panes. Doors, between first and second bays and third and fourth bays, have iron strap hinges. Eaves over-hang, with gutters carried on slim curved iron brackets. Chimney on ridge in line with third bay. Gables have applied close-studded timbering to upper storey, which has loading doors at both ends. Rear wall has buttresses at intervals and continues to east to form garden wall.
Source:
Pevsner Architectural Guides
at Yale University Press.
Alan Brooks, Nikolaus Pevsner (Worcestershire).
References:
Wendy Hitchmough, CFA VOYSEY, London 1995 pp. 39-41.
David
Cole,
The Art and
architecture of CFA Voysey : English pioneer
modernist architect & designer,
2015. Country Life,1899. The Architect,
LXXVI, 1906, p. 404.
The
British Architect, XXXIV, 1890, pp. 208 &
302; XLVI, 1894, pp. 417, 420, 459; XLIV, 1895, p. 419.
The American Architect
& Building News, XXX, 1890, p. 75, pl. 775.
Academy Architecture,
II, 1895, pp.10 & 143.
The Studio,
XI, 1897, pp. 17 & 22.
THE BCH ARCHIVE: BANNUT TREE HOUSE
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Vernacular buildings with rows of gables.
Tudor house
with a row of
gables.
The main body of the house was extended and developed by Sir John
Dawtrey (1518).
Tudor House Museum, Southampton, photo by
Carlesmari,
Wikipedia
Leicester Guildhall, photo by NotFromUtrecht
on Wikipedia
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www.visitleicester.info
Tudor house with a row of
gables,
90-92 West
Street, Warwick,
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