DOI Heft:
No. 42 (September, 1896)
DOI Artikel:The revival of english domestic architecture, [5], the work of Messrs. George and Peto
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.17297#0224
The Revival of English Domestic Architecture
below, a stately architectural facade that suggests Only those whose good fortune it is to live in high
comfort and luxury without undue display. On and well-ventilated rooms can realise the simple
the other side the courtyard front seems more luxury of ample space, which is at once healthy and
home-like, and at least a century earlier in the pro- imposing. Merely as an architectural triumph this
portions of its component parts. The square notable room, with its finely proportioned fireplace,
battlemented tower, with its angle turret staircase, its high panelling, and the oak screen at the far
and the rows of small square-headed windows, end, is so obviously a masterpiece of its kind that
to point out its beauties
would be a work of super-
erogation. A fireplace,
with tall pilasters above it,
the chimney-breast treated
sometimes fronted with a
cornice, as in Shiplake, and
sometimes as in West Dean
Park, Singleton (page 207),
by a semicircular pedi-
ment, or still more simply
in the Great Hall, Bats-
ford, is distinctly an ' Er-
nest-Georgian' feature; but
perhaps not more typical of
the personality of the artist
than are his staircases of
the type illustrated in
Buchan Hill, Sussex (page
204), or the hall of North
Mymiiis, Herts (page 210).
The staircase in each
case is made strikingly
decorative by its ample
proportions and the open
arcading which imparts a
series of structural support
that satisfies you aestheti-
cally and practically. For
Mr. Ernest George realises
in all his work that the eye
must be satisfied as well as
the building surveyor. It
is not enough that a thing
should be permanent and
shiplake court, henley-on-thames Stable, it mUSt look SO aS
messrs. Ernest george and peto, architects \\e\\ "We all know the
(From a Photograph by Messrs. Bedford Lemere & Co,) feding Qf insecurity which
recall the quadrangle of a well-known college ; but certain stone staircases present. To find out how
the large half-timbered gable that breaks the line their vast weight is supported is not merely puzzling
of roof, gives a touch of domesticity which the but almost distressing to an untrained spectator. Yet
well-grouped chimney shafts assist no doubt in if the space underneath be filled in by a glazed screen
maintaining. or an iron grille, the average person never feels the
If in the drawing of the interior of the hall at lack of pillars to carry the great weight which to him
Shiplake Court it appears too ecclesiastical, or at seems stuck upon the wall. In the gallery or bal-
least too like that of a public building, a photograph cony which Mr. George also delights in, as in the
of the interior, fully furnished, dispels any such idea, hall at North Mymms, that at Shiplake Court, or
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below, a stately architectural facade that suggests Only those whose good fortune it is to live in high
comfort and luxury without undue display. On and well-ventilated rooms can realise the simple
the other side the courtyard front seems more luxury of ample space, which is at once healthy and
home-like, and at least a century earlier in the pro- imposing. Merely as an architectural triumph this
portions of its component parts. The square notable room, with its finely proportioned fireplace,
battlemented tower, with its angle turret staircase, its high panelling, and the oak screen at the far
and the rows of small square-headed windows, end, is so obviously a masterpiece of its kind that
to point out its beauties
would be a work of super-
erogation. A fireplace,
with tall pilasters above it,
the chimney-breast treated
sometimes fronted with a
cornice, as in Shiplake, and
sometimes as in West Dean
Park, Singleton (page 207),
by a semicircular pedi-
ment, or still more simply
in the Great Hall, Bats-
ford, is distinctly an ' Er-
nest-Georgian' feature; but
perhaps not more typical of
the personality of the artist
than are his staircases of
the type illustrated in
Buchan Hill, Sussex (page
204), or the hall of North
Mymiiis, Herts (page 210).
The staircase in each
case is made strikingly
decorative by its ample
proportions and the open
arcading which imparts a
series of structural support
that satisfies you aestheti-
cally and practically. For
Mr. Ernest George realises
in all his work that the eye
must be satisfied as well as
the building surveyor. It
is not enough that a thing
should be permanent and
shiplake court, henley-on-thames Stable, it mUSt look SO aS
messrs. Ernest george and peto, architects \\e\\ "We all know the
(From a Photograph by Messrs. Bedford Lemere & Co,) feding Qf insecurity which
recall the quadrangle of a well-known college ; but certain stone staircases present. To find out how
the large half-timbered gable that breaks the line their vast weight is supported is not merely puzzling
of roof, gives a touch of domesticity which the but almost distressing to an untrained spectator. Yet
well-grouped chimney shafts assist no doubt in if the space underneath be filled in by a glazed screen
maintaining. or an iron grille, the average person never feels the
If in the drawing of the interior of the hall at lack of pillars to carry the great weight which to him
Shiplake Court it appears too ecclesiastical, or at seems stuck upon the wall. In the gallery or bal-
least too like that of a public building, a photograph cony which Mr. George also delights in, as in the
of the interior, fully furnished, dispels any such idea, hall at North Mymms, that at Shiplake Court, or
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