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A Butterfly plan, also known as a Double Suntrap plan, is a type of

architectural plan In architecture and building engineering, a floor plan is a technical drawing to scale, showing a view from above, of the relationships between rooms, spaces, traffic patterns, and other physical features at one level of a structure. Dimensio ...

in which two or more wings of a house are constructed at an angle to the core, usually at approximately 45 degrees to the wall of the core building. It was used primarily in late

Victorian architecture Victorian architecture is a series of Revivalism (architecture), architectural revival styles in the mid-to-late 19th century. ''Victorian'' refers to the reign of Queen Victoria (1837–1901), called the Victorian era, during which period the st ...

and during the early

Arts and Crafts movement The Arts and Crafts movement was an international trend in the decorative and fine arts that developed earliest and most fully in the British Isles and subsequently spread across the British Empire and to the rest of Europe and America. Initiat ...

History

Westwood House Westwood House is a stately home, near Droitwich, Worcestershire, England. It has been subdivided into twelve self-contained apartments. The house has origins as an Elizabethan era, Elizabethan banqueting hall with Caroline era, Caroline additio ...

, Worcestershire, was a 17-century precursor. After the original, rectangular house was begun c. 1612, four diagonal wings were added at some time later in the same century. Victorian interest in the plan originated in the 1891 remodelling of Chesters, Northumberland, by

Norman Shaw Richard Norman Shaw RA (7 May 1831 – 17 November 1912), also known as Norman Shaw, was a British architect who worked from the 1870s to the 1900s, known for his country houses and for commercial buildings. He is considered to be among the g ...

. To the original, square house of 1771 he added five wings; three of these were diagonal, creating suntrap flanks for the south and west fronts. The principle of the butterfly plan was also re-adapted within an overall rectangular overall form, as for instance in

Kallio Kallio (; ; literally " the rock") is a district and a neighbourhood in Helsinki, the capital of Finland, located on the eastern side of the Helsinki peninsula about one kilometre north from the city centre. It is one of the most densely pop ...

Library in Helsinki, Finland, by architect

Karl Hård af Segerstad Karl Hård af Segerstad (28 January 1873, Helsinki – 22 October 1931, Helsinki) was a Finnish architect. He came from a Swedish family, but lived and worked his whole life in Finland, mainly in Helsinki and Viipuri (which was taken from Finland ...

, completed in 1902. Notable Arts and Crafts examples: * The Barn, Exmouth, Devon, by

Edward Schroeder Prior Edward Schroeder Prior (1852–1932) was a British architect, instrumental in establishing the Arts and Crafts movement. He was one of the foremost theorists of the second generation of the movement, writing extensively on architecture, art, c ...

(1897) * Happisburgh Manor,

Happisburgh Happisburgh () is a village civil parish in the English county of Norfolk. The village is on the coast, to the east of a north–south road, the B1159 from Bacton on the coast to Stalham. It is a nucleated village. The nearest substantial ...

, Norfolk, by

Detmar Blow Detmar Jellings Blow (24 November 1867 – 7 February 1939) was a British architect of the early 20th century, who designed principally in the arts and crafts style. His clients belonged chiefly to the British aristocracy, and later he became es ...

to a concept by

Ernest Gimson Ernest William Gimson (; 21 December 1864 – 12 August 1919) was an English furniture designer and architect. Gimson was described by the art critic Nikolaus Pevsner as "the greatest of the English architect-designers". Today his reputat ...

(1900) * Papillon Hall,

Lubenham Lubenham is a village and civil parish west of Market Harborough, in the Harborough district, in the south of Leicestershire, England. The first National Hunt Chase Challenge Cup was held in Lubenham, in the grounds of what is now Thorpe Lub ...

, Leicestershire,. David Papillon (1581-1659) a French

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and Military architect built it in 1620. In about 1903 it was redesigned by

Edwin Lutyens Sir Edwin Landseer Lutyens ( ; 29 March 1869 – 1 January 1944) was an English architect known for imaginatively adapting traditional architectural styles to the requirements of his era. He designed many English country houses, war memorials ...

and demolished in 1950 * Home Place, Kelling, Norfolk, by Edward Schroeder Prior (1903–4) * Kelling Hall, Kelling, Norfolk, by

Edward Maufe Sir Edward Brantwood Maufe, RA, FRIBA (12 December 1882 – 12 December 1974) was an English architect and designer. He built private homes as well as commercial and institutional buildings, and is remembered chiefly for his work on place ...

(1913) * Yaffle Hill,

Broadstone, Dorset Broadstone is a suburb and electoral ward of Poole in Dorset, England. It is located from Hamworthy railway station and from Bournemouth International Airport. The ward had a population of 10,289 at the 2021 census. Since 1840, Broadstone ...

, by Edward Maufe (1930)

Gallery

Droitwich westwood house.jpg,

Thebarnexmouth.jpg, The Barn Voewood 21.JPG, Home Place Kelling Hall 30th August 2008.JPG, Kelling Hall Kallion kirjasto.jpg,

Library, Helsinki

References

{{Reflist Arts and Crafts movement House types House styles Victorian architecture