Horace Field's work was often in a Wrenaissance style, as well as other post-gothic English historical revival styles, with influences from the Arts and Crafts movement and Richard Norman Shaw.
12 Facts About Horace Field
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Horace Field's commissions including large houses and offices; he produced a number of works for Lloyds Bank as well as offices for the North Eastern Railway in London and York.
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Horace Field was brought up at 30 Thurlow Road, Hampstead and was educated at University College School.
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Horace Field trained as an architect at the Glasgow firm of John Burnet, then under Robert William Edis of London.
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Horace Field started his own practice in 1882, as Horace Field and Moore, together with his father's assistant Edwin Emmanuel Moore; their first work was Wedderburn House, a six-storey block of flats in Hampstead; Wedderburn Cottage followed adjacent.
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In 1890 Horace Field took on Michael Bunney as a trainee; Bunney became Horace Field's chief assistant, until 1902, when he formed his own practice.
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Horace Field received the commission to design the NER's London offices at 4 Cowley Street, Westminster, his plans were submitted 1904 and the building completed 1906.
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Horace Field left the Art Workers' Guild in 1903 and joined RIBA in 1906.
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Horace Field continued in practice until 1931, retiring to Rye in 1932, where he undertook a few commissions for small house designs and alterations.
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Horace Field's last built design was in 1941, as a favour for his cousin Daisy Field, at Great Dixter, for a conversion of a store attached to the oasthouse into a cow house.
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Horace Field died on 16 June 1948 and is buried with his wife Mary Frances in the churchyard at St Michael's Playden, Sussex.
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Horace Field often made use of steeply pitched roofs with dormer windows to contain extra stories.