DOI Artikel:
Recent designs in domestic architecture
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.43457#0066
Recent Designs in Domestic Architecture
has been threatened with the relentless advance of
the speculative builder and the insincerities and
conventionalities of villadom. So those who have
the aesthetic welfare of this fair district most at
heart are intent on preserving its natural amenities,
and at the same time are endeavouring to bring
into being an architecture in harmony with the
natural environment, hoping to advance the truth
that the art of building has a higher mission to
serve than that of ministering only to material
needs. The house illustrated has been planned
to provide simply and conveniently the required
accommodation, consisting of an entrance hall of
comfortable size that gives access to the living and
dining rooms, with the usual offices facing towards
the north and east. The joists and beams of the
hall are exposed to view, and the walls are
panelled; folding-doors divide the hall from the
living-room, and may, on occasion, be opened
back to combine the hall and living-room in one.
At the south-east corner of the building is a loggia
which can be entered from the dining-room or
living-room. On the upper floor are five bedrooms,
a sleeping balcony over the loggia, a bathroom, and
other conveniences. The walls are built of bricks
of good and varied colour, obtained near the site,
with half-inch mortar joints. The main roof runs
from end to end of the building, and from it
spring the gables, some of which are framed in
oak, pegged together, and the spaces between the
timbers filled with brickwork arranged herring-bone
fashion. In this a debt to local tradition is owned,
as also in the diaper brickwork, and the inspiration
for the brick string-courses.
The same architects are also responsible for the
design and erection of the pair of cottages at Leek
Wootton (below). Here the problem was to erect
cottages of reasonable appearance and ample
accommodation for an economical outlay. The
number of rooms required in each cottage, as re-
vealed by the plan, will be seen to amount to a
large living-room, comfortable parlour, wash-house,
larder, coals, covered yard, with three bedrooms
over. The cost of the pair was to come within
^500, and this was accomplished. Here again
local materials were used, bricks from a yard two
miles away and stone quarried and worked within
sight of the building.
The house at Liphook is a typical example
of the work of Messrs. Unsworth and Triggs of
Petersfield. It occupies the site of a group of
derelict cottages on the high road to Portsmouth.
These cottages were demolished and the stone
masonry and tiles re-used in the construction of
the new house. A stone-flagged walk flanked by
herbaceous borders leads to the open porch on the
PAIR OF COTTAGES AT LEEK WOOTTON, WARWICK, FOR SIR FRANCIS WALLER, BART.
SYDNEY R. JONES AND HOLLAND W. HOBBISS, ARCHITECTS
45
has been threatened with the relentless advance of
the speculative builder and the insincerities and
conventionalities of villadom. So those who have
the aesthetic welfare of this fair district most at
heart are intent on preserving its natural amenities,
and at the same time are endeavouring to bring
into being an architecture in harmony with the
natural environment, hoping to advance the truth
that the art of building has a higher mission to
serve than that of ministering only to material
needs. The house illustrated has been planned
to provide simply and conveniently the required
accommodation, consisting of an entrance hall of
comfortable size that gives access to the living and
dining rooms, with the usual offices facing towards
the north and east. The joists and beams of the
hall are exposed to view, and the walls are
panelled; folding-doors divide the hall from the
living-room, and may, on occasion, be opened
back to combine the hall and living-room in one.
At the south-east corner of the building is a loggia
which can be entered from the dining-room or
living-room. On the upper floor are five bedrooms,
a sleeping balcony over the loggia, a bathroom, and
other conveniences. The walls are built of bricks
of good and varied colour, obtained near the site,
with half-inch mortar joints. The main roof runs
from end to end of the building, and from it
spring the gables, some of which are framed in
oak, pegged together, and the spaces between the
timbers filled with brickwork arranged herring-bone
fashion. In this a debt to local tradition is owned,
as also in the diaper brickwork, and the inspiration
for the brick string-courses.
The same architects are also responsible for the
design and erection of the pair of cottages at Leek
Wootton (below). Here the problem was to erect
cottages of reasonable appearance and ample
accommodation for an economical outlay. The
number of rooms required in each cottage, as re-
vealed by the plan, will be seen to amount to a
large living-room, comfortable parlour, wash-house,
larder, coals, covered yard, with three bedrooms
over. The cost of the pair was to come within
^500, and this was accomplished. Here again
local materials were used, bricks from a yard two
miles away and stone quarried and worked within
sight of the building.
The house at Liphook is a typical example
of the work of Messrs. Unsworth and Triggs of
Petersfield. It occupies the site of a group of
derelict cottages on the high road to Portsmouth.
These cottages were demolished and the stone
masonry and tiles re-used in the construction of
the new house. A stone-flagged walk flanked by
herbaceous borders leads to the open porch on the
PAIR OF COTTAGES AT LEEK WOOTTON, WARWICK, FOR SIR FRANCIS WALLER, BART.
SYDNEY R. JONES AND HOLLAND W. HOBBISS, ARCHITECTS
45