International studio (23.1904)

JVeek-End Cottages

plan, where hexagonal rooms at either end of
the building form quasi-wings. The roofs over
these are circular, but it is difficult to imagine
how a roof of this particular shape is to be
covered with the stone slabs he indicates. The
corridor on the first floor has not sufficient
head-room. With Fen Land, again, the roof
has been a difficulty, for it would be im-
possible to make weather-tight work in tiling
of the portion of the roof shown, almost a flat.
Gables has a plan the principal feature of which—
the upper gallery—is original and well contrived,
but to this he sacrifices an undue portion of room;
and in mentioning 6d. as his price he is far too
sanguine. Querais has thought out an interesting
and cleverly treated plan. His living-room, with
aspect north-east and south-west, would be sunny
and bright. The living room shown in the care-
lessly drawn set of Gazebo is 22 ft. by 12 ft.,
but his design is not otherwise an expensive one.
In the plans of Ned Cray and of Nomad, smallness
of rooms, rather than their oversize, is the charac-
teristic ; in the case of the former, two of the bed-
rooms showing this defect, and the kitchen of the
latter being only 7 ft. 6 in. wide. The roof in this
set also has the objectionable gutter, as has that
of Sunny Jim (p. 48). We imagine Cecilia (pp. 50
and 58) to be a non-English worker. He sends two
designs showing essentially modern treatment, but
with little or none of the continental uneasiness or

exaggeration. They are well set forth in pretty
pen-and-ink drawings. The design of Bumpkin
strikes an entirely different note, and he is evi-
dently a keen student of the country cottage as we
see it in Surrey or Sussex, for example. The
simplicity that is his dominant note and economy
are both contributed to by his expedient of roofing
his building under one straight ridge. Flaneurs
larder faces south : he might well interchange his
china and larder. The barrel ceiling in the bed-
room is, of course, expensive, and is, as a matter of
fact, too low. His bedrooms otherwise are good,
and we like the expedient of the covered way at
the rear of the house. Tristan (p. 55) sends
three designs, of which No. 1 shows a good plan ;
but his first floor shows the defect of so many plans
submitted in this competition of the provision of
bedrooms in which it is sometimes difficult and
sometimes impossible to place a bed. Had
Tristan but gabled the east end of his building,
bedroom No. 3 would have had the advantage of
providing accommodation for the bed it is intended
for. In No. 2 there is no scullery, and his lafder
faces south-east. In No. 3 it is difficult to see
how the chimney from the kitchen is carried, and
we are afraid that the small windows would but
badly light the stairs.
Owing to lack of space it has been necessary to
leave a large number of interesting designs and
plans unnoticed.


week-end cottage (no. i design, first prize)

DESIGNED BY “LIMESTONE”

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