Country Life’s cultural commentator Athena on the salvation of Munstead Wood, the house built by Edwin Lutyens for Gertrude Jekyll.
The news that the National Trust has bought Munstead Wood in the Surrey Hills should be greeted with rejoicing. Built by the young Edwin Lutyens for Gertrude Jekyll in 1896, Munstead Wood is a small, but outstandingly important house, both in the history of English architecture and of Country Life. This was where the architect’s genius…
