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The Salutation is a grade I listed house in Sandwich, Kent, England.[1] It was designed and built by Edwin Lutyens in a Queen Anne style in 1911–12, as a weekend home and country retreat for members of the Farrer family. It was one of the first 20th-century buildings to be given a grade I listing, in 1950.[2] Other structures in the grounds received a grade II listing in 1986. It has been described by Nigel Jones as "the perfect house that many in Britain aspire to own",[3] and by Arthur Stanley George Butler as "Sir Edwin's supreme rendering of the full Georgian idiom … This very perfect work establishes itself as a high peak in Sir Edwin's achievement".
In recent years, the house was operated as a bed and breakfast establishment, and from 2017 to 2020 as a hotel and restaurant.
- ^ Historic England. "The Salutation, Sandwich (1000940)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 20 May 2014.
- ^ Beckett, Matthew (17 April 2013). "Welcome to the market: Lutyens' The Salutation, Kent". thecountryseat.org.uk. The Country Seat. Retrieved 7 April 2024.
- ^ Architecture of England, Scotland, and Wales, Nigel R. Jones, Greenwood Publishing Group, 2005, ISBN 0313318506, p.178