Home Place, English country house and Grade II* listed garden in High Kelling, England.
Home Place is an English country house in the village of High Kelling, Norfolk, listed at Grade II* along with its garden as a single protected property. The house was built in the Arts and Crafts style, and both the building and the garden carry the same protected status.
Home Place was built between 1903 and 1905 for a physician named Percy Horne, who commissioned the architect Edward Prior to design it. Prior was at that time one of the leading figures of the Arts and Crafts movement in England.
Home Place is a fine example of the Arts and Crafts movement, which valued handmade craftsmanship over industrial production around 1900. The architect Edward Prior used local flint and stone in ways that make the building look like it grew from the Norfolk landscape itself.
Home Place is in High Kelling, a small village in Norfolk that is easiest to reach by car. The house is a private property, so it is worth checking in advance whether any access is available before making the trip.
Edward Prior designed Home Place with an unusual butterfly-shaped plan, where two wings open outward from a central core. This shape was rare at the time and was intended to let more light into the interior rooms.
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