Architectural Work
His architectural commissions include
- Inglewood (1892) and The White House (1898)
- in the prosperous Leicester suburb of Stoneygate;
- Lea and Stoneywell Cottages
- (and others) in Ulverscroft, Charnwood Forest, Leicestershire (with Detmar Blow in 1897/9). In May, 2012 it was announced that the National Trust hoped to buy Stoneywell and open it to the public;
- The Leasowes
- his own cottage, at Sapperton (1903, with a thatched roof, since burnt);
- alterations to Pinbury Park (with plasterwork) and Waterlane House
- (1908), both in Gloucestershire;
- Kelmscott
- cottages and the village hall (completed under Norman Jewson in 1933), Oxfordshire;
- Coxen
- at Budleigh Salterton, Devon, constructed in cob (rammed earth); ;Whaplode Church: window, Lincolnshire.
- Competition designs
- His competition 'Design for the Federal Capital of Australia' (1908) is an original project in town planning for the city which was to become Canberra. Hde also submitted a design for new offices for the Port of London Authority.
- Bedales
- His last major project was the Memorial Library (1918–1919) built next to the 1911 Lupton Hall (also a Gimson design) at Bedales School, near Petersfield, Hampshire (built at his request by Geoffrey Lupton under Sidney Barnsley's supervision and completed in 1921).
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