GODDARDS, SURREY

Sir Edwin Landseer Lutyens was one of the greatest

British architects, building country houses, memorials, the Cenotaph, as well as a palace for the Viceroy of

India at New Delhi.

Having opened his first office at 19, he was practically a child prodigy. As a result, he produced an amazing volume of work of all kinds; no British architect can boast such variety.

Goddards, at Abinger

Common, is one of the country houses from his early career.

Everything Lutyens and his mentor, Gertrude Jekyll, who designed the gardens, loved can be seen. Goddards is owned by the Lutyens Trust and it is leased by the Landmark Trust, meaning people can stay there.

Lutyens was originally approached in 1898 by Sir

Frederick Mirrielees to build a

name in bo holiday home for a charity providing holidays for “nurses

with before from hospitals, ladies of small means, East End workers

after the na exhausted by care for others”.

In 1910, it became a weekend home for Sir Frederick’s son,

bold it up Donald, and his American wife.