DOI Heft:
Nr. 220 (July 1911)
DOI Artikel:Recent designs in domestic architecture
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.20973#0162
Recent Designs in Domestic Architecture
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margin house, wimbledon common : view from across lake walker and harwood, architects
RECENT DESIGNS IN DOMES- terraced lawns. The house has two bathrooms
TIC ARCHITECTURE an<^ nme bedrooms, exclusive of day and night
nurseries and dressing-rooms, and is heated arti-
When giving recently some illustrations ot ficially throughout. Inside, the hall has a staircase
a modern house at Wimbledon, we remarked on and panelled dado in light oak. The music-room
the rural amenities which certain parts of this district and morning-room are separated by folding double
still maintain in spite of the great expansion of doors nine feet wide which enable the two rooms
building in the vicinity. The view we now give to be thrown together making a room forty-five feet
of another house in this locality is a further case long by eighteen feet wide. The library has
in point. Margin House, Wimbledon Common, specially designed bookcases, cupboards and
designed by Messrs. Walker and Harwood for A. W. panelling in light oak, with brown stone chimney-
Wills, Esq., the present owner, was planned to take piece and unpolished copper repousse canopy,
as much advantage as possible of the exceptional Externally the house is built with hollow walls of
views obtainable whilst having regard to the points dark red brick with grey-purple quoins and sur-
of the compass at the same time. Essential re- rounds to windows, with a band of ochre-white
quirements which further governed the design were plaster above trowel-marked. The cornice is a
size and clear space in the various rooms, abundance plain plaster cove and the roof is of dark tiles,
of light and economy in working. A terrace twelve Stinchcombe is a South Cotswold village lying
feet wide and ninety feet
long, with brick and tile
steps and box hedge, over-
looks the lake to the north-
west, which is about three
acres in extent, is in the
centre of the grounds and is
the home of several species
of wild-fowl. The lake view
is shared by the library and
the music-room, the latter
also looking on to the ground plan of margin house, wimbledon common
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margin house, wimbledon common : view from across lake walker and harwood, architects
RECENT DESIGNS IN DOMES- terraced lawns. The house has two bathrooms
TIC ARCHITECTURE an<^ nme bedrooms, exclusive of day and night
nurseries and dressing-rooms, and is heated arti-
When giving recently some illustrations ot ficially throughout. Inside, the hall has a staircase
a modern house at Wimbledon, we remarked on and panelled dado in light oak. The music-room
the rural amenities which certain parts of this district and morning-room are separated by folding double
still maintain in spite of the great expansion of doors nine feet wide which enable the two rooms
building in the vicinity. The view we now give to be thrown together making a room forty-five feet
of another house in this locality is a further case long by eighteen feet wide. The library has
in point. Margin House, Wimbledon Common, specially designed bookcases, cupboards and
designed by Messrs. Walker and Harwood for A. W. panelling in light oak, with brown stone chimney-
Wills, Esq., the present owner, was planned to take piece and unpolished copper repousse canopy,
as much advantage as possible of the exceptional Externally the house is built with hollow walls of
views obtainable whilst having regard to the points dark red brick with grey-purple quoins and sur-
of the compass at the same time. Essential re- rounds to windows, with a band of ochre-white
quirements which further governed the design were plaster above trowel-marked. The cornice is a
size and clear space in the various rooms, abundance plain plaster cove and the roof is of dark tiles,
of light and economy in working. A terrace twelve Stinchcombe is a South Cotswold village lying
feet wide and ninety feet
long, with brick and tile
steps and box hedge, over-
looks the lake to the north-
west, which is about three
acres in extent, is in the
centre of the grounds and is
the home of several species
of wild-fowl. The lake view
is shared by the library and
the music-room, the latter
also looking on to the ground plan of margin house, wimbledon common
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