DOI issue:
No. 39 (June, 1896)
DOI article:The revival of English domestic architecture, [1] The work of Mr. Norman Shaw
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.17297#0045
The Revival of English Domestic Architecture
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jecting bays alone break
the plain cube. The porch
is distinctly original in
treatment; by it you see
that although it is evidently
the main entrance, yet that
it is not the front of the
house. It is also pleasant
to notice how the half-
timber framework empha-
sises the fall of the ground,
which adds a basement to
the building on one side.
In a row of Cottages, Village
Shops, &c, Leigh, Kent,
we find a typical group of
simple dwellings, welded
into a harmonious whole,
by no sham facade, but by
the arrangement of the
larger buildings at each
end. In this group the
unity of each house is A cottage at harpenden messrs. ernest george and peto, architects
preserved, and yet its in-
dividuality is not insisted upon unduly. The but the one to the right is hidden. Even the spout-
recurrent gable imparts a sense of restfulness, ing for the rain-water is characteristic of its author j
without any monotonous feeling of repetition. it is neither hidden nor treated as decoration, but
The sketch does not explain whether the pen- simply and unobtrusively arranged, so that it helps
ultimate house at each side is slightly larger than to detach each house from its neighbour. In A
its neighbour; the one to the left undoubtedly is, House at Ascot, the fine gables are treated more
architecturally, yet so far as the drawing shows
they hardly interest you so much, nor do you quite
feel that the date is sufficiently subordinate;
possibly in the actual fabric it does not throw the
whole out of scale as it seems to do in the sketch.
Another house at Ascot for the same owner, and
one at Easthill erected about the same time, are
both more full of picturesque arrangement of mass ;
but the one illustrated here sufficiently shows the
effect this architect gains by most straightforward
mass. Another House at Ascot (for Charles
Stroud, Esq.), is a most enviable dwelling, so pic-
turesque that it might be reproduced on the srage,
or as a background to an historical picture with no
sense of anachronism, and yet it fulfils quietly and
most unmistakably the purposes of a nineteenth-
century residence. The Knoll, Barton; Beech-
wood, Kent; Littlecroft, New Forest (Morton
Peto, Esq.); four small country-houses (illustrated
in The Architect, June i, 1888) ; a house near Hen-
ley-on-Thames ; cottages at Chiselhurst Common ;
a Lodge and Cottages, Hayden, near Pinner ; The
a cottage at harpenden Coca Tree, Pinner, a delightful wayside hostel with
messrs. ernest george and peto, architects an out-of-door staircase ; and many another come to
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at n
jecting bays alone break
the plain cube. The porch
is distinctly original in
treatment; by it you see
that although it is evidently
the main entrance, yet that
it is not the front of the
house. It is also pleasant
to notice how the half-
timber framework empha-
sises the fall of the ground,
which adds a basement to
the building on one side.
In a row of Cottages, Village
Shops, &c, Leigh, Kent,
we find a typical group of
simple dwellings, welded
into a harmonious whole,
by no sham facade, but by
the arrangement of the
larger buildings at each
end. In this group the
unity of each house is A cottage at harpenden messrs. ernest george and peto, architects
preserved, and yet its in-
dividuality is not insisted upon unduly. The but the one to the right is hidden. Even the spout-
recurrent gable imparts a sense of restfulness, ing for the rain-water is characteristic of its author j
without any monotonous feeling of repetition. it is neither hidden nor treated as decoration, but
The sketch does not explain whether the pen- simply and unobtrusively arranged, so that it helps
ultimate house at each side is slightly larger than to detach each house from its neighbour. In A
its neighbour; the one to the left undoubtedly is, House at Ascot, the fine gables are treated more
architecturally, yet so far as the drawing shows
they hardly interest you so much, nor do you quite
feel that the date is sufficiently subordinate;
possibly in the actual fabric it does not throw the
whole out of scale as it seems to do in the sketch.
Another house at Ascot for the same owner, and
one at Easthill erected about the same time, are
both more full of picturesque arrangement of mass ;
but the one illustrated here sufficiently shows the
effect this architect gains by most straightforward
mass. Another House at Ascot (for Charles
Stroud, Esq.), is a most enviable dwelling, so pic-
turesque that it might be reproduced on the srage,
or as a background to an historical picture with no
sense of anachronism, and yet it fulfils quietly and
most unmistakably the purposes of a nineteenth-
century residence. The Knoll, Barton; Beech-
wood, Kent; Littlecroft, New Forest (Morton
Peto, Esq.); four small country-houses (illustrated
in The Architect, June i, 1888) ; a house near Hen-
ley-on-Thames ; cottages at Chiselhurst Common ;
a Lodge and Cottages, Hayden, near Pinner ; The
a cottage at harpenden Coca Tree, Pinner, a delightful wayside hostel with
messrs. ernest george and peto, architects an out-of-door staircase ; and many another come to
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