Design for a house at Church Barnet for Lt. Col. Gillum, by Philip Webb, 1868

Contract drawing in pencil, ink and coloured wash showing designs for a house to be built at Church Barnet for Lt. Col. Gillum. The sheet is signed by Webb, the builder and a witness. The sheet is marked 'No. 6' in the series of designs for the house. It contains interior sectional elevations of the galleried hall, with particular reference to how the wooden frame is to be constructed. Despite its many annotations and sketched details, the drawing is highly finished and shows elements of Webb's design, such as slender ogee windors above the door and on the first floor. At the top of the sheet, rotated 90 degrees from the main drawings, there is a section through the outer wall of the house, showing its construction from its foundations, through the basement, through the ground floor, first floor, and attic. This drawing also shows the sash windows and shutters proposed for all three floors, indicating that although the basement rooms would be constructed below ground level, in places they would be above ground.

Philip Webb designed Church Hill House, later known as Trevor Hall, for Major (later Colonel) Gillum, a retired army officer and philanthropist, in 1868. The house and surrounding buildings were built between October 1868 and 1870. Gillum was not part of the 'artistic' circle from whom Webb drew most of his clients, but he was an enthusiastic patron of many Arts and Crafts practitioners; he owned paintings by the Pre-Raphaelite circle and commissioned interior decoration from Morris and Co. Webb also designed a row of houses, workshops and shops for Gillum in Worship Street, London. Church Hill House was on the site of another of Gillum's philanthropic projects, a farm school established to train destitute boys in agricultural skills. Webb would later also work on buildings for the school.

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