“Inverleith," Lime Tree Road, Norwich

Architect              P Morley Horder and H G Wyand, Associated Architects, London

HOUSE AT NORWICH - In the design of this house, which has been built in the residential part of the town, Mr. M. G. Wyand is associated with Mr. Morley Horder. The site was quite without any point of interest or any sense of privacy. An attempt has been made to remedy this in the irregular form of building and the arched entry to a private forecourt. The tradesmen's entrance is conveniently placed just before the entrance to the archway, and the offices are so arranged that access can be obtained to the dining-room and entrance-lobby without disturbing the privacy of the small hall from which the three reception rooms are approached. When the short avenue leading to this has grown up it will have a better setting, in fact the whole house needs the growth of planting to help its rather isolated look. The garden has been carefully considered with an eye to a general emphasis of all the lines of the house. The billiard-room rather takes the place by request of the more roomy hall usual in a house of this type, and is so arranged that it can be thrown into the dining-room and the little entrance-hall (which, by the way, is quite private) to give a sense of great space when used in this way. A good deal of fine old eighteenth-century panelling, carving, and some fine mahogany doors and chimneypieces, ha\-e been worked up as decorative features in the house, and add greatly to its character. There is a morning-room on the first floor, and six good bedrooms, two dressing-rooms, and two bathrooms. The house is built of brick, roughcast; the upper part of the walls and the roofs are tiled with hand-made tiles. The builders were G. E. Hawes & Son, of Norwich; W. Smith, of London, supplied the metal casements and leaded lights; J. Holding & Sons, London, the sanitary ware; and Thomas Elsley, Ltd., London, the door furniture. The electric wiring and bells were installed by A. Pank & Son, Norwich.

Reference           Mervyn E Macartney: Recent English Domestic Architecture 1909 page 103 and 106-108