Where Am I? No 12

[Jool]

Hepburn, it is very similar in style, but I don't think it's the one.  It has the unusual window gable, the same as No. 12, I wonder if the same architect designed both.

[hepburn]

It said something about it being 'Vernacular Revival'?

[Jool]

This one is really cracking me now!  Come on Yorkslass, use your architectural knowledge and imaginative search words and put us out of our misery please

[Yorkslass]

Oh Jool, believe me I've tried!

Every different word for "tower" known to man, I think 

Plus the different styles of building - arts & crafts, vernacular revival and other sorts of revival, Lutyens, Morris, Pugin, hospital, asylums, schools.

It's those odd bay windows that are defeating me.  Can't find any similar.

It's such an unusual house .... and as has happened before, it may well be the back of it that has been photographed.

Yorkslass

[still_looking]

When you say the odd bay windows, do you mean the sloping roof inset under the apex?

I've seen it a couple of times but neither were in the uk. One was in Australia the other in the USA. Not convinced that it is abroad, suspect earlier post about the tower being for looking out to sea might be right.

Think I found the similar roofs by looking for shingled along with beach house.

S_L

[Ruskie]

I still think this is a view of the front of the house. Odd having two front doors though. Is it a semi?

[Joyful]

I suppose it could be Ruskie, there are at least two different kinds of bricks

used I think

Joy

[DavidG02]

I still think this is a view of the front of the house. Odd having two front doors though. Is it a semi?

Interesting. I had thought it was the front until I read this if that makes sense.

Taking another look I can be convinced it is the back view. Looking at the glasshouse there seems to be a brick building in front, which I had not noticed as being part of the building. If we take it as attached then it could be a garage addition and we are looking at the back towards the tennis court/play area and a sea view.

[Trishanne]

  I was thinking it could be somewhere the families had visited and why would they visit. Could it be a school? The Moon family and the Clifton Brown family all went to Eton and this is not Eton, but they would go to a prep school before. On the Eton site I found a list of  prep schools that send pupils to Eton and I have had a start at looking.
Some of these schools are very rambling made up of lots of different buildings. If the photo was taken of just one section which is relevant to the family, like the school house their boy is  in, it could be almost impossible to identify the school.
I did think I had found it, have a look at http://www.cothill.net/ but I don't think it is. The first picture shows one of the buildings, the second is a closer look at the window, which is very similar. If you look on Google images you will find one which shows how rambling it is.
Pat