Edwin Lutyens, Rosneath House: Scottish Architecture Ferry Inn, Rosneath, by Helensburgh, Scotland: Edwin Lutyens Architect

Scottish House by Sir Edwin Lutyens

The house was put up for sale in late 2004 by FPD Savills Category A Listed House Strictly Private Location: edge of Gare Loch Built: 1896/97 for Princess Louise, later Duchess of Argyll Edwin Lutyens extended the original Ferry Inn that dated from around 1800. Edwin was only 27 when he started the project. The original Inn was later demolished. The house is in the Arts & Crafts style and has three rather different elevations. Glasgow Buildings Lutyens only designed two houses in scotland: the other is Grey Walls, which now forms a hotel, in Gullane. Glasgow buildings : back to index Buildings in the general area: Hill House by Rennie Mackintosh Lomond Shores Balloch In 1885 Lutyens became a student at the Kensington School of Art but did not last the course. He joined the office of Ernest George and Peto where he made friends with chief assistant Herbert Baker; he was later to collaborate with him in the building of New Delhi. He started work as an architect in 1889 and married in 1897. Sir Edwin Lutyens died in 1944. Lutyens made his name designing English country houses in the arts & crafts style, working with garden designer Gertrude Jekyll. Key Lutyens Buildings / Works: Lindisfarne Castle remodelling Castle Drogo Munstead Wood - Gertrude Jekyll's home Cenotaph, Whitehall, London Thiepval Arch, Somme, France Viceroy's House, (Rastrapati Bhavan), New Delhi, India British Embassy, Washington Johannesburg Art Gallery Crypt, Cathedral of Christ the King, Liverpool Edwin Lutyens : Grey Walls Hotel, Scotland Scottish Architecture Modern Houses Sir Edwin Lutyens' home, Goddards, is looked after by the Landmark Trust, ie you can stay there Ferry Inn Rosneath - page: adrian welch / isabelle lomholt