Anyone have a couple of mill down the back of the sofa?
https://www.wowhaus....oKcFPPgWbjq-Zyg
Posted 02 November 2022 - 14:25
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Posted 02 November 2022 - 15:44
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.
Posted 02 November 2022 - 16:45
Posted 02 November 2022 - 18:06
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.
Posted 02 November 2022 - 18:39
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.
Posted 04 November 2022 - 14:24
Posted 04 November 2022 - 16:03
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.
Posted 04 November 2022 - 21:44
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.