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Recent Designs in Domestic Architecture


GRIZEDALE HALL, LANCASHIRE : THE SOUTH FRONT AND TERRACE
WALKER, CARTER & WALKER, ARCHITECTS

approached from a gallery
looking down into the
hall place. Oak, cedar
and kauri pine have been
used in these rooms for
doors, dados, cupboards,
etc., and the floors are of
oak and pitch pine.
The natural way in
which the house merges
into the landscape with
its sympathetic tones of
blue grey and dull green
has helped to tone down
that appearance of new-
ness which most buildings
wear when they leave the
contractor’s hands, and
the effects to be obtained
by the varied plant life
which clings to walls and
roofs in the Lake country
will in time soften the

ternal entrance on the north side. Most of the
principal rooms are panelled in oak, the library
in walnut, the drawing-room and boudoir have
white dados, and the walls above are hung with
silk of a dull yellow colour. There is some good
modelled plaster work by
Mr. Bankart in the ceil-

lines of the building and
bring it still more into sympathy with its sur-
roundings.
The gamekeeper’s cottage, of which an illustra-
tion is given on the next page, was also designed
by Messrs. Walker, Carter & Walker. It was

ings of these two last
rooms. The hall is open
to the roof, which is of
oak, and a special feature
has been made of the
stone fire-place, which is
beautifully carved and
enriched. Panelling runs
round the hall up to the
first floor level, above
which the walls are
finished in the buff
Prudham stone through
to the roof. The three
large windows are filled
with stained glass, through
which the light filters, giv-
ing a delightful opalescent
green effect.
There are about twenty-
five bed and dressing
rooms on the upper floors,
the principal ones being


GRIZEDALE HALL, LANCASHIRE: NORTH-WEST VIEW OF HOUSE SHOWING
ENTRANCE AND TOWER. WALKER, CARTER & WALKER, ARCHITECTS

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