well as architecture. He ran his own practice as well as working for other architects. Unfortunately a new isolation hospital was constructed next door shortly after completion of Home Place. It is believed that Mrs Lloyd, concerned about the possibility of contracting TB from her neighbours in the sanatorium, decided that she could not remain in residence. As a result, the house was rented out shortly after completion. Mrs Lloyd herself died in 1907, and is buried in Cuddesdon in Oxfordshire. It was then used as by the Rev. Frederic Meyrick-Jones as the site for a "crammer" school before being sold to Leicester City Council in 1929. Percy Lloyd lived a nomadic lifestyle after the sale of Home Place. His 'retirement', to the extent that he ever worked, was spent in Italy and the Riviera. He died in 1937 at 2, The Grand Palais, Monte Carlo. He was survived by a son and a daughter. Layout and style The house is based on a butterfly plan. The three storey central portion of the house is flanked by splayed two-storey wings. The plan enabled Prior to maximise views out and to give the best orientation to a range of rooms. He could also relate the external spaces to the internal areas. The area contained within the splay faced the gardens, with the northern of the wings acting as the entrance, with a two-storey porch and daylight basement. This wing also contained the library and billiard room at ground floor level. The wing opposite contained the kitchen and service accommodation together with the dining room. The fruit and vegetable garden lay adjacent. The entrance, through oak doors, leads into a six-sided hall up a straight flight of Hoptonwood stone stairs into an octagonal lobby. The main staircase lies to the left filing the triangular space generated by the butterfly plan. It has a massive oak frame and twisted oak balusters. A corridor with an open oak beam roofs leads from the lobby to the east wing on the garden side. The door to the left immediately before the stairwell leads to the original billiard room. This is essentially an octagonal room with a fireplace to the east. A door at the eastern end provides access to the great hall to the left of the fireplace. To the right of the lobby, a door leads into the library. This is again octagonal, with