International studio (47.1912)

Country Cottages


DESIGN FOR COUNTRY COTTAGE BY WALTER G. WHINCOP


plaster-face Sussex fashion with patterns, as shown,
for example, in Mr. Sydney Jones’s sketches of
cottages in Clare.
For the roofing material the range of choice
seems at first glance a limited one. But yet what
possibilities of selection there are in the various
sizes and makes of tiles—square, scale-shape, pan-
tiles, and the rest—and in their various colours from
a gay red to sombre brown ! For slates the ordinary
Welsh need not be the only choice. There are at
one’s disposal the grey of Cornwall, the green of

Westmorland, the mixed tints of the Welsh or
English rustic slates. Thatch, again, which Mr.
Kay has introduced so effectively for the roofing
of his pretty cottage, may, as best suits the design
and the effect sought for, be of oaten straw, or
wheat, or rye, or reeds.
We have in this article touched on the chief
points which call for consideration in the designing
of a cottage, but it is hardly necessary to say that
nowadays an architect is often called upon to
exercise his judgment in regard to details connected
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