When Edwin Lutyens first came to Great Dixter, he found a fifteenth-century house – the property of Nathaniel Lloyd – that had been greatly changed over time. His commission was to bring the house back to life. In addition to restoring the original house, architect and owner found and re-erected an early sixteenth century hall house on the property – joining both pieces with a Lutyens’s addition providing domestic quarters for the house. Over the years, the interplay of the garden and the house at Great Dixter have become world-renown.