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Homewood, Knebworth, the Glossary

Homewood is an Arts and Crafts style country house in Knebworth, Hertfordshire, England.^[1]

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Arts and Crafts gardens
Buildings and structures in North Hertfordshire District
Grade II listed parks and gardens in Hertfordshire
Knebworth

Arts and Crafts movement

The Arts and Crafts movement was an international trend in the decorative and fine arts that developed earliest and most fully in the British Isles and subsequently spread across the British Empire and to the rest of Europe and America.

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Arts Council of Great Britain

The Arts Council of Great Britain was a non-departmental public body dedicated to the promotion of the fine arts in Great Britain.

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Cassell (publisher)

Cassell is a British book publishing house, founded in 1848 by John Cassell (1817–1865), which became in the 1890s an international publishing group company.

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Chartwell

Chartwell is a country house near Westerham, Kent, in South East England.

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Clapboard

Clapboard, also called bevel siding, lap siding, and weatherboard, with regional variation in the definition of those terms, is wooden siding of a building in the form of horizontal boards, often overlapping.

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Croquet

Croquet is a sport that involves hitting wooden, plastic, or composite balls with a mallet through hoops (often called "wickets" in the United States) embedded in a grass playing court.

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Darkroom

A darkroom is used to process photographic film, make prints and carry out other associated tasks.

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Domestic worker

A domestic worker is a person who works within a residence and performs a variety of household services for an individual, from providing cleaning and household maintenance, or cooking, laundry and ironing, or care for children and elderly dependents, and other household errands.

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Door

A door is a hinged or otherwise movable barrier that allows ingress (entry) into and egress (exit) from an enclosure.

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Dowager

A dowager is a widow or widower who holds a title or property – a "dower" – derived from her or his deceased spouse.

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Edith Bulwer-Lytton, Countess of Lytton

Edith Bulwer-Lytton, Countess of Lytton, (née Villiers; 15 September 1841 – 17 September 1936) was a British aristocrat.

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Edwin Lutyens

Sir Edwin Landseer Lutyens (29 March 1869 – 1 January 1944) was an English architect known for imaginatively adapting traditional architectural styles to the requirements of his era.

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Elisabeth Lutyens

Agnes Elisabeth Lutyens, CBE (9 July 190614 April 1983) was an English composer.

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Façade

A façade or facade is generally the front part or exterior of a building.

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Gable

A gable is the generally triangular portion of a wall between the edges of intersecting roof pitches.

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Georgian architecture

Georgian architecture is the name given in most English-speaking countries to the set of architectural styles current between 1714 and 1830.

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Greywalls

Greywalls is an Edwardian country house at Gullane in East Lothian, Scotland.

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Hermione Cobbold, Baroness Cobbold

Hermione Cobbold, Baroness Cobbold (born Margaret Hermione Millicent Bulwer-Lytton; 31 August 1905 – 27 October 2004), known as Lady Hermione Bulwer-Lytton until 1930, was the British matriarch of Knebworth House and wife of the 1st Baron Cobbold.

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HM Prison Holloway

HM Prison Holloway was a closed category prison for adult women and young offenders in Holloway, London, England, operated by His Majesty's Prison Service.

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Ionic order

The Ionic order is one of the three canonic orders of classical architecture, the other two being the Doric and the Corinthian.

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Joldwynds

Joldwynds is a modernist style house in Holmbury St Mary, Surrey, England, designed by architect Oliver Hill for Wilfred Greene, 1st Baron Greene. Homewood, Knebworth and Joldwynds are arts and Crafts architecture in England.

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Knebworth

Knebworth is a village and civil parish in the north of Hertfordshire, England, immediately south of Stevenage.

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Knebworth House

Knebworth House is an English country house in the parish of Knebworth in Hertfordshire, England. Homewood, Knebworth and Knebworth House are Grade II* listed buildings in Hertfordshire, Grade II* listed houses, Knebworth and works of Edwin Lutyens in England.

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Lady Constance Bulwer-Lytton

Lady Constance Georgina Bulwer-Lytton (12 February 1869 – 2 May 1923), usually known as Constance Lytton, was an influential British suffragette activist, writer, speaker and campaigner for prison reform, votes for women, and birth control.

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Listed building

In the United Kingdom, a listed building is a structure of particular architectural and/or historic interest deserving of special protection.

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Loggia

In architecture, a loggia (usually) is a covered exterior gallery or corridor, usually on an upper level, but sometimes on the ground level of a building.

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Mannerism

Mannerism is a style in European art that emerged in the later years of the Italian High Renaissance around 1520, spreading by about 1530 and lasting until about the end of the 16th century in Italy, when the Baroque style largely replaced it.

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Multiview orthographic projection

In technical drawing and computer graphics, a multiview projection is a technique of illustration by which a standardized series of orthographic two-dimensional pictures are constructed to represent the form of a three-dimensional object.

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Paddington

Paddington is an area in the City of Westminster, in central London, England.

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Philip Webb

Philip Speakman Webb (12 January 1831 – 17 April 1915) was a British architect and designer sometimes called the Father of Arts and Crafts Architecture.

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Pier (architecture)

A pier, in architecture, is an upright support for a structure or superstructure such as an arch or bridge.

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Pilaster

In architecture, a pilaster is both a load-bearing section of thickened wall or column integrated into a wall, and a purely decorative element in classical architecture which gives the appearance of a supporting column and articulates an extent of wall.

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Register of Historic Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England

The Register of Historic Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England provides a listing and classification system for historic parks and gardens similar to that used for listed buildings.

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Retaining wall

Retaining walls are relatively rigid walls used for supporting soil laterally so that it can be retained at different levels on the two sides.

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Rustication (architecture)

Two different styles of rustication in the Palazzo Medici-Riccardi in Florence; smooth-faced above and rough-faced below Rustication is a range of masonry techniques used in classical architecture giving visible surfaces a finish texture that contrasts with smooth, squared-block masonry called ashlar.

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Scullery

A scullery is a room in a house, traditionally used for washing up dishes and laundering clothes, or as an overflow kitchen.

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Stroke

Stroke (also known as a cerebrovascular accident (CVA) or brain attack) is a medical condition in which poor blood flow to the brain causes cell death.

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Suffragette

A suffragette was a member of an activist women's organisation in the early 20th century who, under the banner "Votes for Women", fought for the right to vote in public elections in the United Kingdom.

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Taxus baccata

Taxus baccata is a species of evergreen tree in the family Taxaceae, native to Western Europe, Central Europe and Southern Europe, as well as Northwest Africa, northern Iran, and Southwest Asia.

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Terrace garden

A terrace garden is a garden with a raised flat paved or gravelled section overlooking a prospect.

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Tympanum (architecture)

A tympanum (tympana; from Greek and Latin words meaning "drum") is the semi-circular or triangular decorative wall surface over an entrance, door or window, which is bounded by a lintel and an arch.

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Vernacular architecture

Vernacular architecture (also folk architecture) is building done outside any academic tradition, and without professional guidance.

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Vestibule (architecture)

A vestibule (also anteroom, antechamber, or foyer) is a small room leading into a larger space such as a lobby, entrance hall, or passage, for the purpose of waiting, withholding the larger space from view, reducing heat loss, providing storage space for outdoor clothing, etc.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homewood,_Knebworth

Homewood, Knebworth, the Glossary

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See also

Arts and Crafts gardens

Buildings and structures in North Hertfordshire District

Grade II listed parks and gardens in Hertfordshire

Knebworth

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