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View from south west across the sunken garden
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Traditional vernacular house built with a combination of stone, concrete, flint and tile
The foundations, external and some internal walls, floors, and even some parts of the roof structure were formed with concrete, local lime and materials found on site. Most internal surfaces are clad with machine-made brick and plastered. The house is regarded as one of the finest of the Arts and Crafts movement.
The geometry of the wings penetrates to the heart of the house to create a hall which is diamond-shaped at ground level with an oblong central portion rising to form a dramatic double-height space. Along the south side of the hall is a timber gallery containing a corridor.
The main door leads to the concrete-vaulted octagonal entrance. Steps climb to a square-plan landing giving access to one of the main staircases and to the library and billiard room. The route then leads into the great hall, passing along the corridor below the gallery to a further landing with a secondary staircase.
This landing provides access to the service rooms, including the kitchen and servants’ sitting room, and to the dining room, lit by a shallow canted bay along its south-east wall and has two exits to the exterior.
Data
- Begun: 1904
- Completed: 1906
- Address: Home Place , Holt, Norfolk, NR25, United Kingdom
Professional Team 
- Architect: Edward Schroeder Prior
- Project architects: E S Prior, Randall Wells
- Client: Rev P. R. Lloyd