102 COVENTRY ROAD, WARWICK, WARWICKSHIRE.
New
wing to THE CLIFF
102 Coventry Road, Warwick.
1890
For Sir Michael H. Lakin.
The Cliff, Warwick, photo courtesy of John Trotter
The Cliff, Warwick, photo courtesy of John Trotter
The Cliff, Warwick, photo courtesy of John Trotter
The Cliff, Warwick, photo courtesy of John Trotter
The Cliff, Warwick, photo courtesy of John Trotter
The Cliff, Warwick, photo courtesy of John Trotter
Published in The British Architect, 25th April 1890.
Image courtesy of RIBA Drawings Collection.
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Text published in The British Architect, XXXIII, 25th April 1890, p.296.
Ground floor plan on rightmove.co.uk (2018)
First floor plan on rightmove.co.uk (2018)
Description on Historic England
1. 1781 COVENTRY ROAD No 102 SP 2865 7/441A
2. House, basically mid C19 but with substantial additions of 1890 [....] by C
F A Voysey, for M H Lakin. Rough cast. Low pitched, hipped slate roof. Lateral
chimney stacks. 2 storeys. Garden front 3 window range. Central 2 storey
rectangular bay window projection. Left-hand corner curved. One-storey
projection at right-hand end with curved bay window. Moulded string course
between storeys, extending as cornice across right-hand projection cornice.
Horizontal bands of casement windows with glazing bars, divided by stone
mullions, with hood-bands over.
Pevsner's Warwickshire (with Chris Pickford, 2016) says:
Attached [to The Cliffe] and to the E, EAST CLIFFE (No.102) is an extension by Voysey for M.H. Lakin of 1890, enlarged in 1910 [sic]. The garden front is typical Voysey, low, roughcast, with unmoulded mullioned windows and an asymmetrically set, broad, shallow bow.
Pevsner's mention of enlargement in 1910, which is repeated in the Historic England listing description, is incorrect. This refers to another house called The Cliff, in Malvern Wells, which was altered for Edward Lyon Lakin, younger brother of the Warwick client, in 1910 and again in 1914 and 1919 (Black Book entries 327, 369 & 395).
The Warwick house is now two separate dwellings, created by the demolition in about 1935 of rooms in the original non-Voysey building. In the sketch on this page, the part on the extreme left has gone. The Voysey extension of 1890 became 102 Coventry Road, with the name ‘Eastcliffe’. To make it a dwelling a ‘wraparound’ was built to create a new front, hallway and kitchen area. (Information from the present owner.)
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