Highover Park, Amersham, Buckinghamshire HP7, 6 bedroom detached house for sale

Fine & Country - Park Lane

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£3,000,000

Highover Park, Amersham, Buckinghamshire HP7, 6 bedroom detached house for sale

Price:

£3,000,000

Summary:

Used

Location:

Amersham, Bucks

Description:

An extraordinary opportunity to purchase the first and most important modernist house in Britain, with stunning far reaching views of the Buckinghamshire countryside High and Over presents a rare opportunity for someone to acquire what is widely considered to be the first and most important Modernist house built in Great Britain and architecturally recognised as being of international importance. The original estate was commissioned by the renowned Bernard Ashmore, then Professor of Archaeology at London University and later Keeper of Greek and Roman Antiquities at the British Museum. This extraordinary 1929 Grade II house was designed by young New Zealand architect Amyas Connell, who later formed the pioneering architectural practice Connell, Ward & Lucas. Connell and Ashmole met whilst Ashmole was Director of the British School at Rome where Connell studied architecture. It was in this setting they started their conversations on modern architecture, their admiration for Classical Roman architecture and a potential commission. Connell was described as being ‘deeply versed in the European tradition, but also Modernism, appreciating both’. High and Over is a subtle fusion of Modernism with reference to Classical structure (as befitted Ashmole’s interests) and it gives the property a unique elegance. The Grade II listed property is now regarded as one of, if not, the most important buildings of 20th century Britain. It provoked much debate and controversy as well as receiving international accolade (exhibited ‘Modernist Architecture: International Exhibition’ moma 1932). Sir John Betjeman commented in ‘Metroland’ ( 1973) “In 1931 all Buckinghamshire was scandalised by the appearance, high above Amersham, of a concrete house in the shape of a letter Y”. It was built for a young professor (Bernard Ashmore), by one of his students, a young architect (Amyas Connell). ‘I am the home of a 20th century family’, it proclaimed, ‘that loves air and. Still available at ListedBuy!

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June 27 2023 on Fine & Country - Park Lane (via ListedBuy)