DOI Heft:
No. 217 (April, 1911)
DOI Artikel:Recent designs in domestic architecture
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.20972#0234
Rece?it Designs in Domestic Architecture
RECENT DESIGNS IN DOMES- of the house at Marlborough (built for Mr.
TIC ARCHITECTURE. H. Richardson) and Houghton Grange, near
Huntingdon (built for Mr. Harold Coote).
The houses we illustrate on this occa- Reference to the plans and perspectives of the
sion are all of a rural type, though one of latter and Avington House at Wimbledon
them—that at Wimbledon shown below—is (built for Mr. J. C. Taylor) will show that the
situated in a district that is now commonly one is practically a duplicate of the other, the
regarded as a suburb of London, but which in chief difference being the addition of some
certain parts at all events still retains much of extra bedrooms on the second floor, the lengthen-
that rural character which has made it such a ing of the drawing-room at the expense of the
favourite residential centre. library, and, externally, absence of the stone
The three houses designed by Mr. James dressings and of the balconies in the latter.
Ransome, of Pall Mall—who besides practising Newbie House, designed by Mr. J. B. Scott
in this country has also served under the of the Adelphi, is essentially a formal house,
Government of India as Consulting Architect, and such dignity as it achieves it largely owes
and in that capacity has designed many public to its symmetry, as a glance at the sketch of
buildings for Indian cities—exemplify his par- its colonnaded garden facade will show. The
tiality for planning within four square walls paired columns, rusticated coigns and joist-end
wherever circumstances permit, an arrangement dentil course—together with the tall French
which carries with it many economic advan- windows in the centre bay—all combine to give
tages. All three houses are constructed of red something of a grand air to what in reality is
brick, stone dressings being used in the case quite a modest dwelling, so far as actual cubic
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South Fkont
AVINGTON HOUSE, WIMBLEDON
212
JAMES RANSOME, ARCHITECT
RECENT DESIGNS IN DOMES- of the house at Marlborough (built for Mr.
TIC ARCHITECTURE. H. Richardson) and Houghton Grange, near
Huntingdon (built for Mr. Harold Coote).
The houses we illustrate on this occa- Reference to the plans and perspectives of the
sion are all of a rural type, though one of latter and Avington House at Wimbledon
them—that at Wimbledon shown below—is (built for Mr. J. C. Taylor) will show that the
situated in a district that is now commonly one is practically a duplicate of the other, the
regarded as a suburb of London, but which in chief difference being the addition of some
certain parts at all events still retains much of extra bedrooms on the second floor, the lengthen-
that rural character which has made it such a ing of the drawing-room at the expense of the
favourite residential centre. library, and, externally, absence of the stone
The three houses designed by Mr. James dressings and of the balconies in the latter.
Ransome, of Pall Mall—who besides practising Newbie House, designed by Mr. J. B. Scott
in this country has also served under the of the Adelphi, is essentially a formal house,
Government of India as Consulting Architect, and such dignity as it achieves it largely owes
and in that capacity has designed many public to its symmetry, as a glance at the sketch of
buildings for Indian cities—exemplify his par- its colonnaded garden facade will show. The
tiality for planning within four square walls paired columns, rusticated coigns and joist-end
wherever circumstances permit, an arrangement dentil course—together with the tall French
which carries with it many economic advan- windows in the centre bay—all combine to give
tages. All three houses are constructed of red something of a grand air to what in reality is
brick, stone dressings being used in the case quite a modest dwelling, so far as actual cubic
SBfflffiE? Sj'Cs------...*"!
■'iitsfjiifi \' u~. 'riTTl'' . ■----•----
*~—I....../<»'''"'''-'Witter
South Fkont
AVINGTON HOUSE, WIMBLEDON
212
JAMES RANSOME, ARCHITECT