PAGES from an ARCHITECT's NOTEBOOK George Stanley Repton: His Drawings for a House and a Greenhouse for George Eyre, of Warrens, Bramshaw, Hampshire

Proc. Hampsh. Field Club Archaeol. Soc. 44, 1988, 95-105

PAGES FROM AN ARCHITECT'S NOTEBOOK George Stanley Repton: his drawings for a house and a greenhouse for George Eyre, of Warrens, Bramshaw, Hampshire

By NIGEL TEMPLE

ABSTRACT century had secured several commissions in Hampshire, though Plaw is one of those archi Warrens, Bramshaw is a substantial early-nineteenth century tects remembered more for their books than country house, about which very little has been published. Its for anything known to have been built to one of owner, George Eyre, engaged John Nash as architect. Nash's their designs. However, he did produce a assistant, George Repton, a son of Humphry Repton the landscape gardener, made drawings of a house, greenhouse Gothic cottage orne near Lymington (Plaw and brewhouse inscribed with Eyre's name. These, and some 1800, pi XVI) suitable for the 'liberality of its related Eyre papers, are discussed in this account. possessor, and the real comforts of life', and a domed bath house and fishing lodge at THE HOUSE Brockenhurst House (Plaw 1795). That same attractive book shows a 'Villa in the Cottage 1799 must have been an exciting year for Style' designed for a client in Wales (pi XX), George Eyre. Not only did he gain his MA (he based on Mr Drummond's fishing cottage on was a Fellow of All Souls), but also he was the Avon, near Ringwood. Houghton Lodge, a settling into the landed estate bought from splendid cottage orne built by 1800 near Samuel Orr in the previous year. Apart from Stockbridge with which Nash has been tenta its having been owned during the seventeenth tively linked by Christopher Hussey (1951), is and early eighteenth centuries by the Warren more likely by Plaw, as was conceivably Mr family, who sold to Samuel Young in 1746, and Lambert's Elm Cottage, which stood immedi Young's son having sold to Orr in 1789 (VCH ately adjacent to the surviving picturesque Hants 4, 624—5), we know very little of the North Lodge to Nash's castle at East Cowes, house - 'Warrens', then in Wiltshire, and since and illustrated by William Cooke in 1808 (pi 1895 in Hampshire. But Eyre had already opp 139). Why Eyre selected Plaw is not determined to build anew and was actively known, but he was local, he may have adver seeking professional advice on how to go about tised, and probably enjoyed some publicity it. To judge from the men he is known to have from his first two books (another was about to consulted, George Eyre (1772-1837) wanted appear), for that was normally the reason for something both fashionable and elegant: and such architects committing designs - built, or the designs they produced (for both architects unbuilt — to print. Plaw's Rural architecture, were flexible when it came to matters of style), published in 1785, had already run to four reveal that he sought a building in the classical editions by 1796, and some of the architect's convention. clients must have been known socially to Eyre, who had presumably seen Plaw's work. Perhaps hoping to make a fortune through speculative developments with which he At least four quite different designs for became involved in that city, John Plaw (c Warrens were submitted by Plaw, together 1745-1820) set up his architectural practice in with a variation on one of these plans (Eyre Southampton shortly before Warrens changed Papers). All bear Plaw's name and the date hands. He was of course looking for business 1799, arc similar for their essential symmetry in the neighbourhood, and by the turn of the and for their chastely handled classical style 96 HAMI'SIURK FIELD CLUB AND ARCHAEOLOGICAL six || n

(Fig 1). All but one show houses of modest Warrens (Eyre Papers), the likelihood is that scale that have some form of passageway link Nash's building replaced a substantial dwelling ing the offices off - an arrangement favoured of early Georgian appearance which might, or by Palladian architects, but sometimes con might not, have stood on the present site. sidered to be inconvenient and uncomfortable The architect John Nash (1752-1835) by the occupants. The one grandiose design is entered into partnership with the landscape symmetrical in appearance and thoroughly gardener Humphry Kepton (1752-1818) in self-contained. Even stabling for six horses about 1796. Repton's two architect sons—John and stable yard is embraced within the single Adey Repton (1775-1860) and George Stanley block - about 160 feet long (49 m) - the main Repton (1786-1858) - were assistants in the front displaying pavilions and a pair of three- practice, which ended acrimoniously in about bay colonnades. There is barely a hint in any 1802. As .i result John, (who was deaf) joined of these drawings of the picturesque or rustic his father (who had no formal architectural styles that l'law, as an author, was so indus training), and George remained with Nash to triously promoting. He met with disappoint become his chief assistant. He left Nash's ment at Warrens (as with his Southampton office, not long after marriage in 1817, for ventures), for none of these schemes appears independent practice. During his years with to have been accepted, and the client turned to Nash, George Repton kept several notebooks. Nash. Though the hapless Flaw later emi We are concerned here with only two of them grated to Canada, his drawings remain of (PNB and RNB). interest not only for what they tell of himself One of Repton's notebooks contains a plan and George Eyre. Two of the plans - one and elevation of Warrens, and designs for a captioned 'Design for Addition and Alteration greenhouse bearing Eyre's name (PNB 42, 43, of House at Warrens ..." - tell us virtually all below). These drawings are supplemented by that we know of the house Samuel Orr sold. .mother elevation of the house (RNB 43r), However, if to that knowledge we add specula differing from the former in having four urns tively what can be- gleaned from a very small placed on the loggia parapet. There are also and badly crazed image of a stone-coloured designs for a brew house inscribed 'G. Eyre house on a small canvas that might depict old Esqr near Lyndhurst Hants' (RNB 31v, 32rj.

Fig 1. "K.»st Elevation for Warrens Wilts.' Watercolour sinned In J Plaw Southampton 1799. Private collection. (Author) TEMPLE: PAGES FROM AN ARCHITECT'S NOTEBOOK 97

Warrens has passed almost unnoticed by kitchen court, and drains, privies, etc, accord architectural historians. Terence Davis (1960; ing to the plans and particulars at that time 1966) does not mention it, and Summerson's annexed to the documents. It is of interest to only reference is in his list of Nash's works note that a balustrade over the 'bow' window, (1980, 192), 'c. 1805' - a date repeated by and a cupola and weathercock for the Pevsner and Lloyd (1967, 137), who add 'Prob brewhouse range are specifically mentioned in ably designed by Nash'. The fullest account is the estimates. The greenhouse is not, though an article by Hitchins (1966), but he concen one is indicated in Rcpton's notebook (PNB trates on Eyre and his descendants (who still 22). live at Warrens) and adds little on the house. Nash's commission, his estimating fee of Eyre's papers have been scrutinised for this £100 2s 9d, and indemnification, added £667 study, and we are now in a position to tell 11 s 6d to the estimates: and then there was the much more about Nash's activities at clerk of works' wage of 1 Vi guineas a week, Bramshaw. The documents include George bedding and hay for the horses and other such Eyre's small leather-bound notebook dated details, bringing the final gross estimate to 1799 on the cover, and on the title page £7,571 15s Od. Seventy-three weeks later - by inscribed, 'Amount of Money Expended in 25 June, 1802 - the work was to be finished, repairs &c at Warrens 1799-'. Eyre's journal but of course it was nowhere near completion opened on January 2. It is recorded on the last on time. leaf that by June 30, 1805, a total of £12,286 2s The professional contract between architect 2d had been spent 'on building etc of every and client was drawn up and agreed when description' (Eyre Papers). Nash was at Bramshaw on 2 May 1801. His Plaw having been despatched, Nash made responsibilities included making all plans and his first recorded visit to Bramshaw on Octo designs, keeping and auditing accounts, and ber 12, 1800. In a later letter to Eyre, he wrote making contracts, etc. His commission (10 % that he had extracted dates of some journeys on the final net estimate) was to be paid in he had made 'from a Journal that I always three equal instalments - one third on cover keep'. By February 2, 1804, a total of twenty- ing in the offices, a second one-third when the eight visits - thirteen of them in 1801 alone - house was covered, and a final payment on had been made. From London to Warrens was complctipn. Outstanding expenses would also 88 miles, and Nash allowed for one day's be settled on those occasions. Eyre paid Nash travelling in each direction, plus one or two £292 19s 6d (which included expenses) in July more on site. Before signing his agreement 1801, £222 10s 6d plus travelling expenses of with Eyre, Nash's fees were as normal at that £26 5s Od in December of that year, and a final time - 2 guineas per day (including travelling settlement, including £222 10s 6d plus £68 5s time) and l/6d per mile for travelling Od for travelling, in August 1804. At the end of expenses. Once it had been agreed to proceed, a letter written to Eyre by Nash during or after the scale altered. Nash then charged only the February 1804, a postscript notes his visiting actual cost of travelling, plus two guineas a dates with payments receipted alongside. By day for that time, and nothing for those days deduction Eyre took up residence in the new he spent 'at the Spot'. After signing the house between 15 December 1801 and 9 Feb agreement (and then some minor amendments ruary 1802. (Nash's dates and those recorded to it), this meant that Eyre was charged only by Eyre do not necessarily coincide to the day. five guineas expenses per visit: previously it Nash could have entered his day of departure had cost him several times that amount. from base, his date of arrival or departure from Finally it was agreed that for the sum of Warrens, or the date of his return to base.) £6,675 16s 7d (plus commission etc), Nash It was presumably as a result of over would build the house, its kitchens, offices, running the completion date that Pickering, brewhouse, the wall and gates enclosing the clerk of works, entered into an agreement with 98 HAMPSHIRE FIELD CLUB AND ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY Eyre in November 1802. In future, he was not yellow-brick house as it stands (Figs 4 & 5), to be paid a wage, but by admeasurement and one finds minor differences. The drawings valuation of work done: there was even then show a projecting voussoir at the head of each plenty to be completed, both inside the house ground floor opening, yet the dished roundels (such as finishing the library columns) and in the twin gable-ends are not to be seen in around the offices. Then there was such either of the Repton facades. Of features more additional work as Mr Nash might order. But readily altered after construction, the sym Pickering soon ran into trouble. As completion metrically grouped chimneys have gone, and drew near, the men were taking advantage of the centre upper window has been deepened, his preoccupation by drinking, sharpening while the loggia openings were recently knives, and not extending themselves. Acting glazed. However, an undated water colour, on Nash's instructions and with Mr Eyre's painted with some precision, shows the key advice, Pickering discharged all but two of the stones quite clearly, and the roundels to con men. Yet there was still much to be done. tain sculptural forms: and a sphinx tops a Locks, gutters and work in the gardens had to shallow panelled plinth, built into the parapet be finished, and there was difficulty in finding above the same centre window — shown to be new men for the task. Pickering wrote to Nash deep. Perhaps this water colour is a visua at Dover Street on 21 November and Nash lisation made at some intermediate stage. wasted little time in setting out for Bramshaw, George Repton's plan of Warrens (Fig 2) for he had departed prior even to Pickering's shows nothing closely comparable with other having written a second time six days later. plans seen of Nash houses, though the stairs, Reference should be made to the chimney octagonal room, and 'Anti-room' are typical of pieces. Some were removed from the old house his manner. Little is shown of the offices. and sold. It is possible that others were reused, These might well have incorporated part of the but all the main ground floor rooms had new. earlier building, and an allowance was made One Thorns (?) provided the drawing-room for reusing materials from the old house in chimney piece (bill dated December 1802), constructing the new. While there is nothing and 'Adron' those for the library and eating in Repton's plan to suggest retention of any room. This was presumably William Adron (fl part of Samuel Orr's house, two of Plaw's 1792-1832), later employed at Longleat and proposals incorporated an existing room with Buckingham Palace. He was assisted in his a large canted bay window. Perhaps Nash's business by his son Charles. drawing room echoes this feature which, from That the two elevational drawings George outside, appears to have been heightened to Repton made of the entrance front of Warrens the eaves at some time after its original con (one in either notebook) differ only slightly, in struction. If so, we might account for Nash's detail, has been mentioned. As the earlier \ estimates referring to a balustrading over the notebook (RNB) appears to date from about 'bow' window: especially as George Repton, in 1800, it is possible that the drawing in it could this specification for Rose Cottage, Blaise have been made at the time of building. The Hamlet, refers to its small canted bay window later notebook (PNB) is dated 1805, by which as a 'bow' window (Temple 1979, 130). time we now know the house had been fin Since 1804 Warrens has doubled in size, ished. While we can but guess why George ' George Eyre having himself added accommo Repton made his second drawings (Figs 2 & dation for the large family resulting from his 3), they provide evidence that we can not take first marriage, to Frances Hulse (daughter of it for granted that designs appearing in the Sir Edward Hulse, of Breamore). His grand second notebook necessarily represent com son, George Edward Briscoe Eyre, made missions being undertaken by Nash at the further substantial alterations. Recently, ser time such drawings were made. vants' quarters adjacent to the entrance have On comparing these drawings with the been demolished, the service wing and offices TEMPLE: PAGES FROM AN ARCH I lie I S NOTEBOOK 99

Fig 2. Plan of a house for George Kyrc from (Jeorgc Repton's notebook. (PNB Royal Pavilion. An Galler) and Museums, Brighton)

Fig 3. Elevation ofa house, inscribed "Mr Geo Eyre1 from George Repton's notebook. (PNB R<>\.d Pavilion, An Gallery and Museums, Brighton) 100 HWirsHIKK FIKI.DCI.CR AND ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY

Warrens, Bramshaw, Hampshire: the approach front, 1981. (Author)

Fig 5. Warrens, Bramshaw, Hampshire: the garden from, 1981. (Author) TEMPLE: PAGES FROM AN ARCHITECT'S NOTEBOOK 101 now being screened from the approach by a total absence of columns from the main concave wall, very much in the manner that (glazed) elevation suggests that good light was Plaw had suggested on one of his designs. The of more importance than maximum heat, house shown in Repton's plan has been very especially if the building was sited so that an little altered, and the whole is unusually well end wall faced south. The glazed panels were maintained. fixed, unlike the removable ones that Nash We cannot investigate these later develop suggested to Musgrave would be advantageous ments; yet neither can we let the important at Barnsley, if not actually fitted, although he and extensive alterations made by Philip did put this idea into practice on extending his Webb pass unmentioned. Drawings for his own house at East Cowes. work at Warrens are in the RIBA Drawings Cast-iron trusses were to span all three Collection. roofs, yet no two were made from the same pattern. Although iron and glass were to be the key to constructing more efficient and even THE GREENHOUSE exciting architectural forms shortly to evolve through the experiments of pioneers such as More than twenty greenhouse designs can be Thomas Andrew Knight and John Claudius assigned either directly to Nash's office, or are Loudon (who dubbed the new adventurous recorded through drawings by John and half-dome, curvilinear and acuminated forms George Repton. Greenhouses (this term, as 'non-architectural' for their lack of historical used by George Repton, will be employed in style and applied ornament), there is no sug this account referring to such structures at gestion that Nash was creatively aware of their large) associated with Nash can be classified in aesthetic and functional potential. At Brighton various ways. They might be free-standing, or Pavilion and in columns at Carlton House be conceived as an essential component of a Terrace and Buckingham Palace cast iron was new house, or be added to an existing used by him both structurally and decora- dwelling. While any of his greenhouses might tively, but it had little bearing on the three- be decorated in Gothic, Tudor, classical or dimensional forms that his buildings assumed. exotic styles, the underlying freestanding form Yet there is a possible exception. At Royal most favoured by Nash was of a Parthenon-like Lodge, Windsor, Nash provided a greenhouse overall appearance — usually columned, stand made of cast-iron trellis and a great deal of ing on a shallow plinth, and with pedimented glass (at an estimated cost of £2,737). Even so, end elevations. But even within this classical depictions of the building suggest something concept he might apply oriental rather than simple, light, large and airy rather than an Grecian details, and build in stone or in trellis. adventurous or 'rational' shape. It is interest A design for Samuel Thornton of Albury ing to note in passing that Humphry Repton Park, Surrey is one example of the Parthenon produced a pheasantry for the same royal like form, and Mr Musgrave's, at Barnsley client at Brighton, chiefly of glass supported Park, Gloucestershire, another. George Eyre's on a thin cast frame, in 1808 - six years prior version completes a Grecian trio. Both the to Nash's work at Royal Lodge. last-named clients required free-standing On George Repton's plan of Warrens (Fig 2) greenhouses. While the rear sheds and a space is inscribed 'Conservatory'. This sug stokeholes indicate this, it is still a point to be gests either that one was to be built there, or borne in mind in the Warrens context. It will that one had already been constructed: altern also be seen that a double (return) flue runs atively, that an earlier structure was to be along the back wall only. There are no peri retained. Whatever the intention, this area pheral underfloor ducts (as there once were at could not have been meant for George Rep Barnsley Park). Neither is there any indication ton's design (Figs 6 & 7), for quite apart from that planting beds were intended, though the the stoke-hole and shed, there are projecting 102 HAMPSUIKI. I II ID < II B AND ARCH GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY

Fig 6. Transverse section and detail section of a greenhouse for George Eyre from George Rcpton's notebook. (PNB Royal Pavilion, An Gallery and Museums, Brighton) pilasters at all four angles. Moreover, these are plinth and planting beds are contained by overhung by the pediments, and there are solid end- and back-walls, behind which is a solid end walls on the plan, just as for the stoke-hole and shed. back. Whatever stood in the 'Conservatory' Camellias normally need protection only space would, if not earlier, have been swept from frost, and houses for them are not neces away when the 43 foot (13.11 m) hall was built; sarily provided with beds for raising the the one fitted out by Philip Webb in 1898- plants. Staging, stepped down from a heated 1899. Yet there is no mention of either a back wall may be used, the potted specimens greenhouse or conservatory in Nash's 1801 being progressively lowered as their tips estimates, or in the contract subsequently approach the glass roof. So the construction drawn up with Eyre. No bills or accounts have drawn up by George Repton might have been come to light either. Such a free-standing intended for some such purpose, the absence structure built to Nash's design might have of columns allowing enhanced frontal light been sacrificed when Warrens was extended to while a solid end wall could offer protection the south-west, but if such developments had from leaf-scorching heat, given suitable ori already been mooted, Eyre would presumably entation - not facing south. Unfortunately, have chosen a less vulnerable site for his there is no reason for associating the camellia greenhouse. One is therefore drawn to the house with Repton's drawing. Even the major remains of a camellia house - devoid of all dimensions are at variance, and existing glass and sashes - some 70 yards (64 m) details do not square up with the plan. Yet, beyond the much-lengthened main building one is still drawn back to it. where, facing south-east, the surviving paved Despite having to shelve this second pos- 11 Ml'1.1 PAGES FROM W \k< ill l l I rS NO! EBOOK 103

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Fin 7. Elevation, plan, detail and notes lor a greenhouse, inscribed 'Mr Geo Eyre' from George Repton's notebook. (PNB Royal Pavilion, An Gallery and Museums, Brighton) 104 HAMPSHIRE FIELD CLUB AND ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY sible site for lack of convincing evidence we are Nunwell, Isle of Wight, and Parnham Hall, not at a complete loss, for as late as September Dorset (Temple 1988). Nash's estimates for 1807 Nash wrote to Eyre a letter suggesting Warrens included costing for such provision that a greenhouse not altogether unlike the and refer to a cupola and weathercock for that one drawn by George Repton was actually range of outbuildings of which the brewhouse built at Warrens. Apparently, Nash had been formed part. The sashes were to be hung in consulted about making improvements to the November 1802, but it will be remembered Court room and Great House at Lyndhurst that Pickering (George Eyre's clerk of works) (Eyre was a New Forest Verderer). Nash was having trouble with the men. One bill touches on his advice before turning to War including work at the brewhouse is dated rens, where there had been water-supply diffi March 1804. No doubt all was completed in , culties, there being no permanent spring at the due course, and in the courtyard there stands a place where one was needed - which might or range of buildings topped by a cupola and might not have been about the gardens. weathervane. A rapid survey has not identified Building a tank was suggested, and on 1 accommodation closely comparable with that March 1808 John King communicated from shown in Repton's section and plans. Even so, Southampton with Eyre about Parker's there is ample evidence that a brewhouse was Cement - frequently specified by Nash. Three constructed under Nash's direction, and there days later Nash's assistant, James Morgan, is no reason for supposing that it was other wrote from the London office with estimates than the RNB notebook record shows. for cement to bed tiles in a tank. But of more An undated note in the Eyre Papers sug immediate interest is Nash's opinion on a gests that £500 was initially allowed for the greenhouse as it then was: '. . . I think it too gardens, on which Mr Naish (the gardener) plain for its situation - the prettiest way of had begun work by late 1802 and in which he finishing the front would be (I think) to treat was laying turf in the spring of 1804. His the whole as Trellis planting any small leaved 'improvements' were continuing in October of bushy growing plant within the Trellis work that year. George Eyre's grandson, George and keeping it cut fair with the face of the Edward Briscoe Eyre, introduced specimen trellis work so that the form of the Trellis conifers he brought from South America, and might be preserved and appear to enclose the reshaped the gardens, as well as enlarging the plants, and there should be a trellis border house. under the Eaves.' It will be seen that PNB 43 At this point we must leave Warrens, having (Fig 7) shows the terminal piers to be sur conclusively connected its building with Nash, mounted by shallow urns similar to those but having found no evidence that his assistant above the house in the elevational drawing George Repton was directly involved in any (RNB). Nash was disappointed, for his letter capacity in a commission which Nash must states that he had always wanted the green have considered particularly important to have house piers to be finished with vases. demanded so many visits by him during the We are left with little doubt that Eyre did course of construction. Some journeys were build a greenhouse to Nash's design and that presumably made en route to or from other he had done so, if not to the letter, before 1808: clients, for example to Lyndhurst, where Nash moreover, there were features shared with enlarged Northerwood for Mr Mitchel. Repton's elevational drawing. In a letter (undated, but written not later The remaining set of drawings George than 1804) to George Eyre, Nash enclosed Repton made for Warrens are for the another from a Mr Thornton requesting Eyre's brewhouse (RNB 31v, 32r) - which invites advice on how it should best be answered. It comparison with drawings made by George appears (though there is some ambiguity) that Repton for Frankland Lewis, of Harpton Nash, as a compliment to Eyre for his kindness Court, Radnor, and Sir William Oglander, of and his 'connexion', had preferred not to TEMPLE: PAGES FROM AN ARCHITECT'S NOTEBOOK 105 charge this Mr Thornton a fee, but just profes than one subsequent client to his engagement sional expenses. PNB 26-29 show drawings of by George Eyre. the greenhouse for Samuel Thornton (Temple 1987, 6 Iff). Though such a structure was ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS probably not built at Albury Park, one of the same design appears in the depiction of a Mr and Mrs A Crosthwaite Eyre; the owner of the Eyre Bedfordshire garden known to Humphry Papers; Hampshire County Library; Hampshire Repton and one of his sons. In his letter Nash County Record Office; Royal Institute of British thanked Eyre also for his 'introduction to Mr Architects; Royal Pavilion, Art Gallery and Museum, Mitchele'. It appears that Nash owed more Brighton; Wiltshire County Records Office.

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Author. Nigel Temple MLitt PhD ATD RWA, 4 Wendover Gardens, Christchurch Road, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire GL50 2PA.