Sir Edwin Lutyens

Edwin Lutyens was born in Kensington on 29 March 1869 and died in Marylebone on 1 January 1944. His ashes are in St Paul's Cathedral. He is best known for the Cenotaph in Whitehall, Viceroy's House in New Delhi and the Thiepval Memorial, and he worked with the garden designer Gertrude Jekyll.

His Dartmoor building is Castle Drogo, built for Julius Drewe between 1911 and 1930. What stands is about a third of what he drew. The full plan was a courtyard with three wings, the west wing was dropped before the First World War, and the great hall after it. Wikipedia gives the reasons as money and Drewe's decision to double the thickness of the walls. The National Trust says the walls are up to six feet (1.8 m) thick and about 100 workers were on site.

Lutyens wrote privately that he wished Drewe "didn't want a castle but just a delicious loveable house". The castle has been Grade I listed since 20 February 1952 (list entry 1106086). Its roofs have leaked since it was built, and the National Trust's conservation project on it finished in 2021.