Butterfly plan
A Butterfly plan, also known as a Double Suntrap plan, is a type of architectural plan in which two or more wings of a house are constructed at an angle to the core, usually at approximately 45 degrees to the wall of the core building.[1] It was used primarily in late Victorian architecture and during the early Arts and Crafts movement.
History
Westwood House, Worcestershire, was a 17-century precursor.[2] After the original, rectangular house was begun c. 1612, four diagonal wings were added at some time later in the same century.[3]
Victorian interest in the plan originated in the 1891 remodelling of Chesters, Northumberland, by Norman Shaw.[2] To the original, square house of 1771 he added five wings; three of these were diagonal, creating suntrap flanks for the south and west fronts.[4]
The principle of the butterfly plan was also re-adapted within an overall rectangular overall form, as for instance in Kallio Library in Helsinki, Finland, by architect Karl Hård af Segerstad, completed in 1902.
Notable Arts and Crafts examples:
- The Barn, Exmouth, Devon, by Edward Schroeder Prior (1897)[5]
- Happisburgh Manor, Happisburgh, Norfolk, by Detmar Blow to a concept by Ernest Gimson (1900)[6]
- Papillon Hall, Lubenham, Leicestershire,. David Papillon (1581-1659) a French Huguenot and Military architect built it in 1620.[7] [8] In about 1903 it was redesigned by Edwin Lutyens and demolished in 1950 [9][7]
- Home Place, Kelling, Norfolk, by Edward Schroeder Prior (1903–4)[10]
- Kelling Hall, Kelling, Norfolk, by Edward Maufe (1913)[11]
- Yaffle Hill, Broadstone, Dorset, by Edward Maufe (1930)[12]
Gallery
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Kallio Library, Helsinki
References
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