Claud Phillimore, 4th Baron Phillimore

Claud Stephen Phillimore, 4th Baron Phillimore (15 January 1911 – 29 March 1994) was an English architect specialising in larger country houses who succeeded to his family's title in 1990.

He was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was a member of the Pitt Club.^[1]

He was married to Anne Elizabeth Dorrien-Smith (b.1911), daughter of Major Arthur Dorrien-Smith. Their son Francis Stephen Phillimore (b. 1944) succeeded as 5th Baron Phillimore.

Architectural works

These include:

Knowsley Hall, Prescot, Merseyside, (1953–54), reduction and reconstruction of the hall; construction of the New House in the grounds.^[2]
11 Binney Street, Mayfair, London (1957), interior remodelled with Aubrey Jenkins for Viscount Ridley.^[3]
The Dower House in the grounds of Arundel Castle, Sussex, (1959).^[4]
The Durdans, Epsom, Surrey (1950s), reduction and reconstruction.^[5]
Killruddery House, Bray, County Wicklow, Republic of Ireland (1950s), reduction and reconstruction.^[6]
Rademon House, Crossgar, County Down - 1950s, rebuilt after a fire.^{[citation needed]}
Aske Hall, North Yorkshire, (1963-4), demolition of ballroom and reduction of wings.^[7]
Tusmore House, Oxfordshire, (1964), demolished.^[8]
Villa Foscari near Venice, Italy: renovation work; Phillimore inherited the house in 1965 from Alberto Clinton Landsberg, but sold it to architect Prof. Antonio ("Tonci"), Count Foscari (b. 1938), in 1973.
23 St Anselm's Place, Mayfair, London, (1966–67) as a private residence for the fourth Duke of Westminster.^[9]
Cubberley, a house in the Wye Valley, Herefordshire (1971), replacing an earlier house.^[10]

Arms

References

^ Fletcher, Walter Morley (2011) [1935]. The University Pitt Club: 1835-1935 (First Paperback ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 102–103. ISBN 978-1-107-60006-5.
^ Pollard, Richard; Nikolaus Pevsner (2006), The Buildings of England: Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West, New Haven & London: Yale University Press, pp. 217–218, 222, ISBN 0-300-10910-5
^ Sheppard, F. H. W., ed. (1980), "Duke Street Area: Redevelopment by Seth Smith in the 1820s", Survey of London: volume 40: The Grosvenor Estate in Mayfair, Part 2 (The Buildings), British History Online, retrieved 24 August 2008
^ Robinson, John Martin (June 2006), "Arundel Castle ducal splendour revived", Apollo, Press Holdings, p. 2, retrieved 24 August 2008
^ Bauckham, Tim; E. Manterfield (2006), The Durdans, Epsom, Epsom and Ewell History Explorer, retrieved 24 August 2008
^ Kilruddery House, Bray, County Wicklow, Buildings of Ireland, retrieved 24 August 2008
^ Zetland estate website
^ Binney, Marcus; Sean O'Neill (2 November 2004), "Stately £30m home wins classic award", Times Online, London: News International Group, retrieved 24 August 2008
^ Sheppard, F. H. W., ed. (1980), "Davies Street Area: St. Anselm's Place", Survey of London: volume 40: The Grosvenor Estate in Mayfair, Part 2 (The Buildings), British History Online, retrieved 24 August 2008
^ Davidson, Max (26 June 1999), Saying a last farewell to rural seclusion, Telegraph Group, retrieved 24 August 2008^{[dead link]}
^ Debrett's Peerage. 1973.