DOI issue:
No. 138 (august, 1908)
DOI article:Recent designs in domestic architecture
DOI Page / Citation link: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.28255#0138
Recent Designs in Domestic Architecture
SMOKING ROOM OF HOUSE AT EYNSHAM WILLIAMS ELLIS & SCOTT, ARCHITECTS
The smoking-room illustrated on this page was
designed by Messrs. Williams Ellis & Scott for
Eynsham Lodge, Oxon, and presents various points
of interest. The stout joists of the upper floor,
themselves supported by elm-cased girders, cross
and re-cross the whitened ceiling, the whitewash
being continued in the frieze above the plate and
picture ledge. Below this the plaster walls, which
are left slightly granular from the wooden float, are
washed a light buff; all the woodwork, including
the wood floors, being stained a rich brown. The
heavy leaded casements are set in sturdy timber
frames placed flush with the
outer wall face, thus afford-
ing a comfortable window-
seat in the splayed recess.
The glazing is partly of old
Dutch and English glass,
slightly varying in shade and
gauge, the heraldic blazon-
ing in the small windows
being carried out in subdued
tones on old glass by Mr.
Dudley Forsyth from the
architect’s sketches. The
open hearth fireplace is
built in 2-inch Sussex bricks
of warm shades. The tym-
panum cherubs over the
doors were modelled and
cast by Miss V. Harris to
the architect’s designs.
The “Ostmarker Hof,” of which illustrations are
given, is a country residence built from the designs
of Herr Rudolf Schmid, of the Atelier fur Archi-
tektur und Innendekoration, Freiburg in Breisgau,
at Gutach, a few miles from that town, in the
midst of, and harmonising with, very picturesque
surroundings. On the ground floor there is a
large hall (Diele) approached through a vestibule
(Vorhalle). To the right of the large hall is the
family dining-room (Speisezimmer), connected with
which is a serving lobby (AnricAfe) communicating
with the kitchen; and to the left are a cloak-room
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SMOKING ROOM OF HOUSE AT EYNSHAM WILLIAMS ELLIS & SCOTT, ARCHITECTS
The smoking-room illustrated on this page was
designed by Messrs. Williams Ellis & Scott for
Eynsham Lodge, Oxon, and presents various points
of interest. The stout joists of the upper floor,
themselves supported by elm-cased girders, cross
and re-cross the whitened ceiling, the whitewash
being continued in the frieze above the plate and
picture ledge. Below this the plaster walls, which
are left slightly granular from the wooden float, are
washed a light buff; all the woodwork, including
the wood floors, being stained a rich brown. The
heavy leaded casements are set in sturdy timber
frames placed flush with the
outer wall face, thus afford-
ing a comfortable window-
seat in the splayed recess.
The glazing is partly of old
Dutch and English glass,
slightly varying in shade and
gauge, the heraldic blazon-
ing in the small windows
being carried out in subdued
tones on old glass by Mr.
Dudley Forsyth from the
architect’s sketches. The
open hearth fireplace is
built in 2-inch Sussex bricks
of warm shades. The tym-
panum cherubs over the
doors were modelled and
cast by Miss V. Harris to
the architect’s designs.
The “Ostmarker Hof,” of which illustrations are
given, is a country residence built from the designs
of Herr Rudolf Schmid, of the Atelier fur Archi-
tektur und Innendekoration, Freiburg in Breisgau,
at Gutach, a few miles from that town, in the
midst of, and harmonising with, very picturesque
surroundings. On the ground floor there is a
large hall (Diele) approached through a vestibule
(Vorhalle). To the right of the large hall is the
family dining-room (Speisezimmer), connected with
which is a serving lobby (AnricAfe) communicating
with the kitchen; and to the left are a cloak-room
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