Cecil Horace Hignett was born in Ringway, Cheshire, England on 1 March 1879 and was articled to Edgar Wood (1860-1935) in Manchester from 1896 to 1900. He then worked as an assistant to Thomas William Hudson (1865-?), before joining Barry Parker (1867-1947) and Raymond Unwin (1863-1940) of Parker & Unwin as their assistant at Letchworth in 1901. He remained with them until 1910 when he commenced independent practice in Letchworth.
Hignett was elected a Licentiate of the Royal Institute of British Architects (LRIBA) in 1910 and a Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects (FRIBA) in 1921.
His address was given as Croft Lane Letchworth, Hertfordshire and The Apiary, Norton, Letchworth, Hertfordshire in 1910; Station Place, Letchworth, Hertfordshire in 1914; and The Three Gables 12 Croft Lane, Norton, Letchworth, Hertfordshire from 1914 to 1960. Hignett died in Hitchin, Hertfordshire on 14 May 1960
A biographical file on Cecil Horace Hignett is available on request at the Enquiry Desk, Royal Institute of British Architects Library, London
Factories at Letchworth for the Spirella Corset Co., the British Tabulating Machine Co., Ltd., and the Marmet Baby Carriage Syndicate, Ltd.; show-rooms for Spirella Corset Co on three floors of the Paris House, Oxford Circus, London; 54 Houses for the Letchworth Urban District Council (as of 1923); workmen's houses at Budleigh Salterton, Devon, Stroud, near Petersfield, Hindhead, Surrey, Ruislip, Middlesex, Datchet, Buckinghamshire, and at Long Sutton, Lincolnshire, and elsewhere; and alteration and enlargement of "Grovehill" Suckley, Worcester [Source: Who's Who in Architecture 1914 and 1923].
He also designed numerous private houses in Letchworth Garden City
Directory of British Architects 1834-1914. Compiled by Antonia Brodie, et al. Volume 1: A-K. London; New York: British Architectural Library, Royal Institute of British Architects/Continuum, 2001
Miller, Mervyn Architects of Letchworth Garden City Letchworth : Letchworth Garden City Heritage Foundation, 1999.
Small country houses of today. Edited by Lawrence Weaver London: Country Life, 1919, pp.56-61