International studio (22.1904)

COTTAGES WITH FROM THREE TO FIVE BEDROOMS
IN NESTON ROAD, THORNTON HOUGH

he takes in the adornment of his cottage buildings,
regardless of a financial return for his outlay in
every case; and with this the lovers of good archi-
tecture will be little disposed to complain, because
out of this healthy impulse has grown the refined
transformation of a whole village. If the sole aim
and object of building is money-making, art must
vanish from Thornton Hough and from many
places elsewhere.
A study of these, and
indeed of any of the
other plans of cottages
in Thornton Hough,
reveals the underlying
motive of the landlord
to be a solicitous care for
the decency and self-
respect of his tenants;
and this consideration
for comfort and welfare
in the home undoubt-
edly places the relations
between landlord and
tenant upon a higher
plane, and a more en-
during footing, than if
the interest were ex-
pressed by personal visits
to the cottagers, or by a
distribution of charity,
blankets and scarlet

cloaks, with a fussy
patronage on the part of
the donor so distasteful
to the sturdy independ-
ence of the village la-
bourer.
Standing apart at the
upper end of the village
may be seen a pretty
cottage with an oak
shingled turret, appro-
priated as a coachman's
lodge, also an entrance
gate lodge, of which two
views are given here, to-
gether with a plan of the
latter, showing a parlour
in addition to the living-
room, also four good bed-
rooms. The spacious en-
trance porch adds a very
inviting appearance to
the front, and the situa-
tion of this lodge in relation to the entrance gates,
opening to a fine avenue of trees, gives a charm to
the picture, which is inadequately represented by
our illustration, because of the omission of these
pleasant surroundings from the photograph. This
gate lodge is said to be largely a reproduction of the
old schoolhouse at Weobley, Herefordshire, a place
of old-time importance, eminently noted for its fine

MESSRS. DOUGLAS AND
FORDHAM, ARCHITECTS

COTTAGES WITH FROM 1HREE TO FIVE BEDROOMS
IN NESTON ROAD, THORNTON HOUGH

MESSRS. DOUGLAS AND
FORDHAM, ARCHITECTS