International studio (49.1913)

Recent Designs in Domestic Architecture


HOUSE AT EXMOUTH, SOUTH DEVON

ROGERS, BONE AND COLES, ARCHITECTS

Recent designs in domestic
ARCHITECTURE.
The house illustrated on this page has been
built from the designs of Messrs. Rogers, Bone
and Coles, Architects, of Westminster, and occupies
a site forming part of the Rolle estate at Exmouth
in South Devon. The site is a beautiful one on
the higher slope of the Littleham Valley, which
runs right out to the sea, and from the house there
are magnificent views of both coastline and sea.
The walls of the house are built hollow and rough-
casted, in order to withstand the driving rain.
We also illustrate, on page 48, another house
built from the designs of Messrs. Rogers, Bone and
Coles on the same estate at
Budleigh Salterton, a small
residential place some five
miles from Exmouth. Here
also the walls have been built
hollow and rough-casted for
the same reason as in the
house at Exmouth, the winds
being so strong at times that
driving rain would saturate an
ordinary nine-inch brick wall.
The loggia faces south and
has a view of the sea beyond.
The drawing shows an at¬
tempt to give some interest
in the treatment of an in¬
ternal angle in a house of
simple and economical

design. The short columns, sills and lintels are
of Boulting stone.
The Grey house, Neston, Cheshire, has been
recently erected for Mr. W. L. Davies on a
site overlooking the estuary of the Dee, from
designs by Messrs. Cossins, Peacock and Bewlay of
Birmingham. The aim in the design has been to
produce a simple unpretentious dwelling-house and

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PLAN OF HOUSE AT EXMOUTH.