DOI Heft:
No. 62 (May, 1898)
DOI Artikel:Townsend, Charles Harrison: "Cliff Towers": a house on the Devonshire coast, by C. Harrison Townsend
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.18391#0267
A I louse on the Devonshire Coast
"CLIFF TOWERS." END ELEVATION C. HARRISON TOWNSEND, ARCHITECT
Devonshire, and of plea
that its actuality may be
set against those short-
comings that are so easily
to be avoided when real
conditions have not to be
taken into account.
The quaint, old, narrow-
streeted town of Salcomhi-
occupies one side of the
estuary which runs down,
like some deep chine, from
Kingsbridge five miles off,
and debouches into the
English Channel a mile or
two west of the little town.
Here on the edge of a cliff,
and backed by the rich
green Devon country, the
house is to be placed.
A climate such as this nook on our Southern The principles which actuated the design of
coast is blessed with, which allows the cactus, the " Cliff Towers " can perhaps best be expressed by
olive and the aloe to prosper well through its faint means of a descriptive letter written to explain to
version of winter, suggests an open-air habit of the client the features of the house.
life which the arrangement of the house attempts " My dear S-, I should have liked the oppor-
to embody. Accordingly, the terraces carried to tunity of showing you the drawings for the pro-
the very verge of the cliff that falls sheer down to posed 1 Cliff Towers ' with viva voce commentary
the deep water, the verandah on which the living on them. There are many points that must needs
rooms give, and the long length of balcony, are all be left untreated in a written description,
made the leading and cardinal features of the " I have, as you see, before all things considered
design. Not only, too, is the aspect full south, the position of the house, and have tried to make
but it is in that direction that the view spreads out my design speak the fact that it was primarily
like a panorama, and the green Devon hills across dictated by the nature of your site. With the
the lake-like estuary stretch to the sharper and opportunity of facing full south, I have started
loftier rise of Bolt Head, while beyond the Bar, with the principle that each of my rooms should
that is alike the harbour's protection and its danger, have this aspect, and the further opportunity of
the sweep of cliffs widens out to the Channel itself. commanding the view up the estuary on the one
" CLIFF TOWERS." SOUTH ELEVATION C. HARRISON TOWNSEND, ARCHITECT
242
"CLIFF TOWERS." END ELEVATION C. HARRISON TOWNSEND, ARCHITECT
Devonshire, and of plea
that its actuality may be
set against those short-
comings that are so easily
to be avoided when real
conditions have not to be
taken into account.
The quaint, old, narrow-
streeted town of Salcomhi-
occupies one side of the
estuary which runs down,
like some deep chine, from
Kingsbridge five miles off,
and debouches into the
English Channel a mile or
two west of the little town.
Here on the edge of a cliff,
and backed by the rich
green Devon country, the
house is to be placed.
A climate such as this nook on our Southern The principles which actuated the design of
coast is blessed with, which allows the cactus, the " Cliff Towers " can perhaps best be expressed by
olive and the aloe to prosper well through its faint means of a descriptive letter written to explain to
version of winter, suggests an open-air habit of the client the features of the house.
life which the arrangement of the house attempts " My dear S-, I should have liked the oppor-
to embody. Accordingly, the terraces carried to tunity of showing you the drawings for the pro-
the very verge of the cliff that falls sheer down to posed 1 Cliff Towers ' with viva voce commentary
the deep water, the verandah on which the living on them. There are many points that must needs
rooms give, and the long length of balcony, are all be left untreated in a written description,
made the leading and cardinal features of the " I have, as you see, before all things considered
design. Not only, too, is the aspect full south, the position of the house, and have tried to make
but it is in that direction that the view spreads out my design speak the fact that it was primarily
like a panorama, and the green Devon hills across dictated by the nature of your site. With the
the lake-like estuary stretch to the sharper and opportunity of facing full south, I have started
loftier rise of Bolt Head, while beyond the Bar, with the principle that each of my rooms should
that is alike the harbour's protection and its danger, have this aspect, and the further opportunity of
the sweep of cliffs widens out to the Channel itself. commanding the view up the estuary on the one
" CLIFF TOWERS." SOUTH ELEVATION C. HARRISON TOWNSEND, ARCHITECT
242