Hamstone House

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Hamstone House
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Location of Hamstone House in Surrey
Location St George's Hill
Coordinates 51°20′41″N0°27′14″W / 51.34467°N 0.45382°W / 51.34467; -0.45382
OS grid reference TQ 07787 61753
Area Surrey
Built1938
ArchitectIan Forbes
Architectural style(s) Neo-Georgian
OwnerEdenfield Investments
Listed Building – Grade II
Official nameHamstone House
Designated16 November 1984
Reference no. 1030101

Hamstone House is a large detached house on the St George's Hill estate in the English county of Surrey. The house stands in 8 acres of grounds that are bordered by St George's Hill Golf Club. [1]

History

The house was designed in 1938 by Ian Forbes for the building contractor Peter Lind in the Neo-Georgian style, then in vogue. [2] [3] [4]

The house and lodges are built from concrete and faced with honey coloured hamstone, a form of limestone mined in Ham Hill in Somerset. [5] [6] The stone used to build Hamstone House was the last significant supply of the stone before the closure of the Ham Hill quarries for 40 years. [7] Gargoyles bearing the initials of Lind and his wife sit atop the lead pipes of the house. [5]

Christopher Warman, writing in The Times in 1987 wrote that Hamstone House was perhaps "the most important architectural centrepiece of St Georges's Hill...and looks like the bridge of a huge ocean going liner". [5] The house was acquired in 1984 by an owner who spent £2 million on renovations and creating an Art Deco interior. The house was put on sale with Hamptons & Sons for £5 million in 1987 (equivalent to £14,962,157in 2021). An 8 ft Venetian glass chandelier and Lalique light fittings were specially commissioned for the house. [5]

Richard Durman in his 2006 book Ham Hill: Portrait of a Building Stone describes the style of Hamstone House as "ashlar faced, simple Classical lines, and some good carved details". [7] Ian Nairn, writing in the 1971 Surrey edition of the Pevsner Architectural Guides, described the house as "Neo-Classical with a big gatehouse and suntrap plan". [8] Christopher Matthew described a visit to Hamstone House in his 'Property' column in Punch magazine in July 1987. Matthew wrote that 'even in the midst of the quasi-rural grandur' Hamstone House stands out like the 'Duchess of Windsor's flamingo brooch in a local jewellers window' and the grounds as 'eight acres of tall trees and woodland walks, beds of heathers and a formal rose garden that would not look out of place in the grandest of crematoria'. [1]

The main house has been listed Grade II on the National Heritage List for England since November 1984. [2] In addition to the main house, the entrance lodges and garage are also listed Grade II. [9] The house is curved and has 10 bedrooms. The centre of the paved forecourt in front of the house holds a fountain. [1] An underground air raid shelter at the house was turned into a billiard room in the late 1980s. [1] Elm from the piers of the old Waterloo Bridge was used in the dining room floor at Hamstone House. [4] [1] Peter Lind, who commissioned the house, was the contractor for the new Waterloo Bridge designed by Giles Gilbert Scott, that was built at the same time as the house. [4]

Hamstone House was the subject of the main article in the 13 September 1939 issue of Country Life , which included extensive photographs of the interior and exterior. [10] In 2001, Hamstone House was acquired by the Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska's company Edenfield Investments. [11] It was for sale with Beauchamp Estates in 2020 for £16 million. It was listed as having 5 bedrooms; 4 en-suite, with 8 acres of grounds. [12]

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References

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  2. 1 2 Historic England, "Hamstone House (1030101)", National Heritage List for England , retrieved 16 March 2019
  3. ↑ "UK Modern House Index". UKMOHO. Retrieved 16 March 2019.
  4. 1 2 3 Malcolm Airs (2002). The Twentieth Century Great House. Department for Continuing Education, Oxford University. p. 72. ISBN   978-0-903736-31-2.
  5. 1 2 3 4 Warman, Christopher (1 July 1987). "A Great Gatsby Touch at £5 million" . The Times. No. 62809. p. 37. Retrieved 19 March 2019– via The Times Digital Archive.
  6. ↑ F G Dimes; J. Ashurst (2 November 2007). Conservation of Building and Decorative Stone. Routledge. p. 100. ISBN   978-1-136-41543-2.
  7. 1 2 Richard Durman (2006). Ham Hill: Portrait of a Building Stone. Spire Books Limited. p. 192. ISBN   978-1-904965-09-1.
  8. ↑ Ian Nairn; Nikolaus Pevsner; Bridget Cherry (March 1971). Surrey. Yale University Press. p. 519. ISBN   978-0-300-09675-0.
  9. ↑ Historic England, "Lodges and garage to Hamstone House (1286843)", National Heritage List for England , retrieved 16 March 2019
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