The Bear's lair

Anyone have a couple of mill down the back of the sofa?

 

https://www.wowhaus....oKcFPPgWbjq-Zyg

 

 

Probably a lot more than that now! That article is from 2015 and the sole comment is from Denny's granddaughter denying that it was his house.  

Old advert, been on here before I think.

https://forums.autos...s/#entry7207146

 

Confusingly there are two other houses in Rodona Road, St. George's Hill which is also said to be Denny Hulme's.

 

So which one is it!?

 

https://pbs.twimg.co...pg&name=900x900

 

https://www.broadway...bed763f6f2b.jpg

 

Built in 1972, mentioned on the architects website: https://www.broadway...ars-of-history/

 

This one also lists Denny Hulme as the client: http://www.ukmoho.co...lding/1686.html

 

Photo link: http://daveanderson....xrodonaroad.jpg (Wrong house in photo?)

 

https://www.housepri...BRIDGE-KT13 0NP

 

Location on Google Maps.

Edited by Myhinpaa, 02 November 2022 - 18:19.

Goes to show, one should never trust interesting-looking items that pop up on Facebook at breakfast time.

 

I wonder if it sold? I'd imagine the site alone is worth more than that now, assuming it hasn't already been built over.

We went to the house for a barbecue back in the early/mid Seventies - just my parents, brothers and me with the Hulmes. Denny did the cooking. It amused him hugely that my younger brother polished off two huge steaks. It was a fabulous house. Light, modern, spacious. We lived in a nice house but this was something else. It’s a long time ago but my recollection of it is more akin to the image on the Broadway website.

This is the house on Broadway Maylan's website, which also states it's a house done for Denny Hulme.

 

 

A view from the back of the house.

 

 

The entry on UK Modern House website might get the name right ("Matrix") but it links to a photo of a very different house.

 

The house in the advert discussed is similar, but with many differences. 

 

 

 

I hadn't realised the house was designed by Broadway Malyan. The principal, John Malyan OBE, was a VSCC member. He'd rebuilt several Frazer Nashes from basket cases, and raced some of them. He'd also restored a 1926 Alfa Romeo RL, using oak from a demolished bank counter for the running boards!

 

Broadway Malyan took a pit for business entertaining each year at (I think) the April VSCC meeting. Important contacts were invited - in theory. In fact he kept inviting fellow enthusiasts, and I attended several years after becoming useless. In the early nineties, he gave me and my family a ride round Silverstone in the Alfa. The featured make at the meeting was Alfa Romeo, and John's was the course car, with the onerous duty of picking up notes from each Observer between races.

 

Architects had a reputation for viewing clients as mere financers of their grandiose schemes, but Broadway Malyan was quite different. They were flexible, and eager to give the client what he would appreciate. No doubt Denny Hulme's wishes and preferences would have been expertly reflected in that house.