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Nr. 163 (September, 1910)
DOI Artikel:Architectural gardening, 10: with illustrations after designs by C. E. Mallows, F.R.I.B.A., and F. L. Griggs
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19867#0277
Architectural Gardening.—X.
PLAN SHOWING SITUATION OF GARDEN STORE AND
PIGEON-HOUSE ILLUSTRATED BELOW
in order to show how it is very easily pos-
sible to so arrange two usually very ugly
buildings (such details of a garden are
commonly hidden away in any odd corner
as necessary but unsightly places) in such
a manner, that they not only retain all their
usefulness, but, with the added attraction
of a pigeon-house or dovecote, may be
converted into an interesting detail in the
general garden scheme.
In this instance a tool shed is provided
in the centre of a flower garden on one
side, and a garden store in the centre of
the kitchen garden on the other, whilst
the pigeons over can survey both gardens
from the same point of vantage.
The materials are of two kinds only :
English oak for the principal portion, and
tiles for the roof. The construction of the
whole is very simple and of such a char-
acter that any intelligent village carpenter
could carry it out himself with very little
additional aid.
As the plan shows, the shape is an
octagon, and it is placed with its centre on
the centre line of the wall. At each end
of the eight points of the octagon an oak
post is fixed, taken out of 6 in. by 6 in..-'
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timber. These are all framed into stout oak
sills at the bottom and carried straight through
and framed into an oak plate at the top, which
takes the feet of the rafters of the hipped octa-
gonal roof, which would be covered, as just
mentioned, with local red hand-made tiles, or by
oak shingles.
The weather vane shown in the sketch is merely
an external finish to a vertical iron rod, which goes
through the centre of the roof to the level of the
bottom of the plate, and is then connected to
radiating oak ties with each angle of the octagon.
These ties form both a useful and constructional
purpose, as they serve as perches for the pigeons,
and the ties also serve the purpose of bracing and
strengthening the roof and sides just where they
most need it.
Small braces to the posts and plate at the top of
GARDEN STORE AND PIGEON-HOUSE
DESIGNED AND DRAWN BY C E. MALLOWS, F.R.I.B.A.
PLAN SHOWING SITUATION OF GARDEN STORE AND
PIGEON-HOUSE ILLUSTRATED BELOW
in order to show how it is very easily pos-
sible to so arrange two usually very ugly
buildings (such details of a garden are
commonly hidden away in any odd corner
as necessary but unsightly places) in such
a manner, that they not only retain all their
usefulness, but, with the added attraction
of a pigeon-house or dovecote, may be
converted into an interesting detail in the
general garden scheme.
In this instance a tool shed is provided
in the centre of a flower garden on one
side, and a garden store in the centre of
the kitchen garden on the other, whilst
the pigeons over can survey both gardens
from the same point of vantage.
The materials are of two kinds only :
English oak for the principal portion, and
tiles for the roof. The construction of the
whole is very simple and of such a char-
acter that any intelligent village carpenter
could carry it out himself with very little
additional aid.
As the plan shows, the shape is an
octagon, and it is placed with its centre on
the centre line of the wall. At each end
of the eight points of the octagon an oak
post is fixed, taken out of 6 in. by 6 in..-'
200
timber. These are all framed into stout oak
sills at the bottom and carried straight through
and framed into an oak plate at the top, which
takes the feet of the rafters of the hipped octa-
gonal roof, which would be covered, as just
mentioned, with local red hand-made tiles, or by
oak shingles.
The weather vane shown in the sketch is merely
an external finish to a vertical iron rod, which goes
through the centre of the roof to the level of the
bottom of the plate, and is then connected to
radiating oak ties with each angle of the octagon.
These ties form both a useful and constructional
purpose, as they serve as perches for the pigeons,
and the ties also serve the purpose of bracing and
strengthening the roof and sides just where they
most need it.
Small braces to the posts and plate at the top of
GARDEN STORE AND PIGEON-HOUSE
DESIGNED AND DRAWN BY C E. MALLOWS, F.R.I.B.A.