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International studio — 43.1911

DOI issue:
Nr. 171 (May, 1911)
DOI article:
Recent designs in domestic architecture
DOI Page / Citation link:
https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.43446#0310

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Recent Designs in Domestic Architecture

Recent designs in domes-
tic ARCHITECTURE.
The houses we illustrate on this occa-
sion are all of a rural type, though one of
them—that at Wimbledon shown below—is
situated in a district that is now commonly
regarded as a suburb of London, but which in
certain parts at all events still retains much of
that rural character which has made it such a
favourite residential centre.
The three houses designed by Mr. James
Ransome, of Pall Mall—who besides practising
in this country has also served under the
Government of India as Consulting Architect,
and in that capacity has designed many public
buildings for Indian cities—exemplify his par-
tiality for planning within four square walls
wherever circumstances permit, an arrangement
which carries with it many economic advan-
tages. All three houses are constructed of red
brick, stone dressings being used in the case

of the house at Marlborough (built for Mr.
H. Richardson) and Houghton Grange, near
Huntingdon (built for Mr. Harold Coote).
Reference to the plans and perspectives of the
latter and Avington House at Wimbledon
(built for Mr. J. C. Taylor) will show that the
one is practically a duplicate of the other, the
chief difference being ' the addition of some
extra bedrooms on the second floor, the lengthen-
ing of the drawing-room at the expense of the
library, and, externally, absence of the stone
dressings and of the balconies in the latter.
Newbie House, designed by Mr. J. B. Scott
of the Adelphi, is essentially a formal house,
and such dignity as it achieves, it largely owes
to its symmetry, as a glance at the sketch of
its colonnaded garden facade will show. The
paired columns, rusticated coigns and joist-end
dentil course—together with the tall French
windows in the centre bay—all combine to give
something of a grand air to what in reality is
quite a modest dwelling, so far as actual cubic


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JAMES RANSOME, ARCHITECT
 
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