George (Ernest) & Peto 1876 - 1892

Ernest George & Peto [also known as George & Peto] was an architectural partnership formed in London, England by Ernest George (1839-1922) and Harold Ainsworth Peto (1854-1933).  After sixteen successful years, in which the practice designed numerous country houses and residences in Kensington and Chelsea, in 1892, for reasons of health, Peto withdrew from the partnership.

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Projects by the practice included premises for Thomas Goode & Co. in South Audley Street, London (1875–76;  Ossington Coffee Palace in Newark-on-Trent, Nottinghamshire (1881–82); and serveral country houses including Buchan Hill, Crawley, Sussex (1882–84); Batsford Park, Gloucestershire (1887–88), Shiplake Court, Oxfordshire (1889–91); Poles, Ware, Hertfordshire (1890–92); West Dean Park, Sussex (1891–93); Motcombe House, Shaftesbury, Dorset (1892–94); North Mymms, Hertfordshire (1893–98).

See also:

Historic England

British Listed Buildings

Bibliography

Grainger, Hilary Joyce. The architecture of Sir Ernest George and his partners, c.1860-1922. Ph.D. thesis, University of Leeds, 1985

Gray, A. Stuart. Edwardian architecture: a biographical dictionary. London: Gerald Duckworth & Co., Ltd., 1985 [Entries for Ernest George and Harold Ainsworth Peto]

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