Homewood, Knebworth

Designed and built by architect Edwin Lutyens around 1900–3, using a mixture of vernacular and Neo-Georgian architecture, it is a Grade II* listed building.

[2] The lower part of the house brickwork is painted in a cream colour The interior is classical, with the rooms laid out compactly on a grid of three by three units.

So much so, that in 1928, when he enlarged Chartwell in Kent, he asked his architect ,Philip Tilden, to copy these three windows, but in a more square dining room, to fit a round table.

[3] This arrangement produced draughts and helped to make the house cold in the winter; Edith's bedroom gained the nickname "Vladivostok".

[8] After her ordeals in Holloway Prison, Constance's failing health led to a stroke in 1912, and she spent the rest of her life at Homewood with her mother.

[10] The composer Elisabeth Lutyens CBE spent many holidays here with her grandmother, and wrote about Homewood in her autobiography, "A Goldfish Bowl" (pub Cassel 1972) as a "delicious house" P5.

Sir Edwin Lutyens visited on 15 September 1931 and was photographed kneeling in the garden in front of his seated mother in law, the Dowager Countess, on her 90th birthday, which she shared with her twin sister, Lady Loch.

[11] Beyond the house's southeast front with its stone-flagged terrace are yew hedges and flowerbeds, and a lower area of lawn below a retaining wall.