DOI Heft:
No. 117 (November, 1906)
DOI Artikel:Recent designs in domestic architecture
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.28250#0068
Recent Designs in Domestic Architecture
the parlour and dining-room is a loggia (shown in
the photographs), sheltered from the hot western
sun and conveniently placed for tea and other
meals. Externally the house is faced with grey
Crowborough bricks, the soft colour blending
harmoniously with the red brick dressings to the
angles and windows. The upper portion is finished
in a warm cream rough-cast, and the roof is covered
with hand-made Kentish tiles, which soon take
on a rich mellow colour. The windows are of
wood, with the parlour bay in stone, glazed with
lead latticed lights. The whole exterior has been
kept as simple and quiet as possible, the entire
effect being gained by the grouping and composi-
tion of the various parts of the house. The
entrance lodge and the stable buildings are all
planned in a similar way, and built of the same
materials as the house. Inside the same treatment
has been kept in view. The billiard-room is panelled
in oak, with wide fireplace recess ; and the open
beamed ceiling is treated in colour, producing a
delightfully simple yet rich effect. The dining-
room is also panelled in oak, and the ceilings
throughout are treated with hand-modelled plaster
work. Upstairs and throughout the kitchen wing
everything has been kept as simple as possible,
having as little unnecessary woodwork requiring
periodical painting as could be, the result being
a house that, though containing every modern
requirement in a small way, yet does not mean an
expensive upkeep.
“The housing problem,” writes Mr. Bloomfield
Bare, “ would be very beneficially affected both in
town and country if it were possible to multiply
all over the kingdom the very satisfactory con-
ditions created at Port Sunlight by Messrs.
Lever Brothers. Manufactories established where
land is comparatively cheap permit the grouping
of adjacent dwellings for workpeople in healthy
surroundings, while the area of occupation need
not be too cramped, the workman can be housed
conveniently near to his work, find land for culti-
vation in allotment gardens, and open spaces for
amusements and recreations in the fresh air after
ordinary business hours. In several particulars
Port Sunlight serves as an object-lesson for other
parts of the country. The architectural embellish-
ment of many of the dwellings and public build
ings in Port Sunlight has undoubtedly been carried
out more as a hobby of the proprietors, somewhat
regardless of cost, rather than as a speculative
scheme for producing a direct return for the outlay.
F. GUY DAWBER, ARCHITECT
the parlour and dining-room is a loggia (shown in
the photographs), sheltered from the hot western
sun and conveniently placed for tea and other
meals. Externally the house is faced with grey
Crowborough bricks, the soft colour blending
harmoniously with the red brick dressings to the
angles and windows. The upper portion is finished
in a warm cream rough-cast, and the roof is covered
with hand-made Kentish tiles, which soon take
on a rich mellow colour. The windows are of
wood, with the parlour bay in stone, glazed with
lead latticed lights. The whole exterior has been
kept as simple and quiet as possible, the entire
effect being gained by the grouping and composi-
tion of the various parts of the house. The
entrance lodge and the stable buildings are all
planned in a similar way, and built of the same
materials as the house. Inside the same treatment
has been kept in view. The billiard-room is panelled
in oak, with wide fireplace recess ; and the open
beamed ceiling is treated in colour, producing a
delightfully simple yet rich effect. The dining-
room is also panelled in oak, and the ceilings
throughout are treated with hand-modelled plaster
work. Upstairs and throughout the kitchen wing
everything has been kept as simple as possible,
having as little unnecessary woodwork requiring
periodical painting as could be, the result being
a house that, though containing every modern
requirement in a small way, yet does not mean an
expensive upkeep.
“The housing problem,” writes Mr. Bloomfield
Bare, “ would be very beneficially affected both in
town and country if it were possible to multiply
all over the kingdom the very satisfactory con-
ditions created at Port Sunlight by Messrs.
Lever Brothers. Manufactories established where
land is comparatively cheap permit the grouping
of adjacent dwellings for workpeople in healthy
surroundings, while the area of occupation need
not be too cramped, the workman can be housed
conveniently near to his work, find land for culti-
vation in allotment gardens, and open spaces for
amusements and recreations in the fresh air after
ordinary business hours. In several particulars
Port Sunlight serves as an object-lesson for other
parts of the country. The architectural embellish-
ment of many of the dwellings and public build
ings in Port Sunlight has undoubtedly been carried
out more as a hobby of the proprietors, somewhat
regardless of cost, rather than as a speculative
scheme for producing a direct return for the outlay.
F. GUY DAWBER, ARCHITECT