Leonard Rome Guthrie (1880, Leeds – 1958, Blyth, Suffolk) was an English architect. He joined the Wimperis & Simpson partnership in 1925 to form Wimperis, Simpson and Guthrie.
His works included:
In 1912, Townhill Park House, Southampton. Italianate Gardens with planting schemes by Gertrude Jekyll.
Between 1926 and 1931, Grosvenor House, Park Lane London. The design was started by Guthrie but finished by Edwin Lutyens.
In 1929, the University of London Observatory.
In the 1930s, the BBC transmitter building at the Brookmans Park transmitting station near London, followed by others at Moorside Edge, Westerglen, Washford, Lisnagarvey, Burghead, Stagshaw, Start Point and Droitwich. These buildings had impressive Art Deco facades in Portland Stone, and many of them survive. The Washford building is Grade II listed.
In 1932, as part of the firm Wimperis, Simpson and Guthrie and with Maurice Bloom: Marine Gate, Brighton.
In 1936, Winfield House, the Official Ambassadorial residence of the U.S. Ambassador to the United Kingdom.
