Basic Site Details Name: | The Retreat | Town, district or village: | Lakenheath | City or county: | Suffolk | Country: | England | Parish: | | Status: | | Grid ref: | | Notes: | | Building Type ClassificationThe building is classified under the following categories: | | Classification | Original classification? | Notes | | Country House | | |
EventsThe following date-based events are associated with this building: | | From | To | Event type | Notes | | 1897 | | | | | 1900 | | Design exhibited | | | 1902 | | Design exhibited | Dining room design (this is given as 'Dining Room Suffolk in catalogue - coule therefore refer to Cavenham or The Retreat at Lakenheath) |
PeopleDesign and ConstructionThe following individuals or organisations have carried out design/construction work. Where architects or practices worked together, matching letters appear beside their names in the Partnership Group column. | | Name | Role | Partnership Group | From | To | Notes | | Andrew Noble Prentice | | | 1897 | | |
ClientsThe following individuals or organisations have commissioned work on this building/design: | | Name | Notes | | Dunn, William, Sir - Bt, MP | |
ReferencesBibliographic ReferencesThe following books contain references to this building: | | Author(s) | Date | Title | Part | Publisher | Notes | | Academy Architecture | 1900 | | part 1 | | p56 | | Aslet, Clive | 1982 | The Last Country Houses | | New Haven & London: Yale University Press | p327 | | Crook, J M | | The rise of the Nouveaux Riches | | | p272 | | Graves, Algernon | 1905 | The Royal Academy of Arts: a complete dictionary of exhibitors and their works… | 1905-6 | London: Graves and Bell | 1900, no 1700; 1902, no 1577 | | Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts | 1901 | | | | 749, 757 |
Archive ReferencesThe following archives hold material relating to this building: | | Source | Archive name | Source catalogue no. | Notes | | RIBA Archive, Victoria & Albert Museum | RIBA Nomination Papers | | Andrew Noble Prentice: F v14 p23 no863 (microfilm reel 11) |
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