International studio (47.1912)

Country Cottages



bright-red machine-made kind.
Nor, if an outside plaster face
be employed, need it neces-
sarily and invariably be of
cement rough-cast. There is
always the variation possible
of using a roughly plastered—
in fact, “rough-floated”—and
not pebble-dashed finish, to
say nothing of incising the

already created local traditions which indicate the
best and most efficient methods and materials
for its construction. We shall find that for the
building of our walls we have at our command
brick in the south and part of the middle portion
of England, stone in the north and west and in the
neighbourhood of the Cotswolds, flint in Suffolk and
East Anglia, and timber pretty nearly throughout
England. Mr. Sydney Jones’s map in the Special
Spring Number of The Studio showing the geo-
logical formation of our country, and the building
materials dictated by it in different districts, will be
found full of suggestion as to the selection of the
true local methods. The use of rough-cast seems
to be popular with those who have sent us designs,
but there are indications that the reign of this not
very inspired material is coming to a close. Local
bricks of good mixed colour, sand-faced bricks and
those of less than the ordinary 3-inch thickness,
nre finding favour in place of the monotonously


PERSPECTIVE, ELEVATION, AND PLAN’S OF COUNTRY
COTTAGE DESIGNED BY FRANK L. W. CLOUX


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