International studio (39.1909/1910(1910))

Country Cottages and their Gardens

feared, for years to come, until the taste and
culture of the people come to the rescue and
insist on a return to the principles of old-time
building, which after all are but based on common
sense and reason and need no deep research to
discover.

With these notes we publish some sketch designs
for small cottages and gardens which show an
endeavour to return to such principles both in
building and garden design, and which have been
planned in every case to suit a given site and
given conditions. The view on page 283, how>
ever, is not an original design so far as the
building itself is concerned. It illustrates what
was, until a few years ago, an old cider mill in
Monmouthshire which has been re-arranged
to serve the purpose of a holiday cottage, the
only alterations made being those required for
doors, windows and floors; the structure itself re-
maining practically unaltered. This little cottage,

set amidst lovely scenery, is an excellent example

PART OF A COTTAGE AT BIDDENHAM, BEDS.
C E. MALLOWS, F.R.I.B.A., ARCHITECT

of how such a change
should be made and of
what can be done by
simple means and by
materials rightly used
under sympathetic direc-
tion. In this instance,
the wise director was
Mr. H. Avray Tipping, to
whose discerning and fer-
tile mind and wide know-
ledge of gardening is due
one of the most charming
and delightful wild and
rock gardens in England.
It adjoins the small cot-
tage shown in this sketch.
In the illustration on
page 285 the two cottages
were planned for a site
surrounded on the north
and east by a wood and
on ground falling rapidly
to the south and west.
The buildings were natur-
ally placed on the higher
part, and a small garden
court formed between

SKETCH SHOWING PART OF PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT SCHEME AT HAPPISBURGH, them, Open On One side tO

NORFOLK DESIGNED AND DRAWN BY C. E. MALLOWS, F.R.I.B.A. the SOUth-WeSt. The exist-

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