DOI Heft:
Nr. 77 (August 1899)
DOI Artikel:Some country and suburban houses designed by Ernest Newton
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19232#0191
Ernest Newton
HOUSE AT BECKENHAM ERNEST NEWTON, ARCHITECT
considers that a house should form part of its
surroundings and be affected by the natural
characteristics of the neighbourhood in which it
is placed, is amply evidenced when we contrast
his house at Burley, Yorkshire, with those he has
designed for the suaver southern counties. Here
we find him using the local stone, not only for his
walls, but split into thin slabs for roofing purposes
also, while the somewhat grimly severe nature of
the design itself sturdily standing four square to
the bracing breezes of the moorlands, speaks
in every line its habitat. Interesting, too, from
another point of view is Mr. Cree’s house at
Beckenham, where variety and play in the group-
ing are attained by wholly simple and unforced
means. In effect the plan of this suggests two
houses placed together and just touching each
other at one corner. A glance at the plan will
show the practical advantage thereof. Facing the
garden, but with access easily and effectively gained
from the old-fashioned forecourt in front, is the
house proper, with its fine hall and reception
rooms on the ground floor. Almost detached
therefrom are the servants’ quarters, kitchen,
pantries, scullery, and so forth, with the servants’
bedrooms on the upper storey. Of more modest
proportions, but full of feeling in its quiet demure
simplicity, is the little house at Winslow, Bucking-
hamshire, evidently designed for a country doctor,
and with easy ingenuity allowing separate access to
his surgery and consulting-room from the main
road, the main entrance being reached through the
garden. A doctor’s house also is the other
pleasing little study on page 161. This has not
yet been translated into stone, but one can well
imagine its unobtrusive charm nestled among the
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HOUSE AT BECKENHAM ERNEST NEWTON, ARCHITECT
considers that a house should form part of its
surroundings and be affected by the natural
characteristics of the neighbourhood in which it
is placed, is amply evidenced when we contrast
his house at Burley, Yorkshire, with those he has
designed for the suaver southern counties. Here
we find him using the local stone, not only for his
walls, but split into thin slabs for roofing purposes
also, while the somewhat grimly severe nature of
the design itself sturdily standing four square to
the bracing breezes of the moorlands, speaks
in every line its habitat. Interesting, too, from
another point of view is Mr. Cree’s house at
Beckenham, where variety and play in the group-
ing are attained by wholly simple and unforced
means. In effect the plan of this suggests two
houses placed together and just touching each
other at one corner. A glance at the plan will
show the practical advantage thereof. Facing the
garden, but with access easily and effectively gained
from the old-fashioned forecourt in front, is the
house proper, with its fine hall and reception
rooms on the ground floor. Almost detached
therefrom are the servants’ quarters, kitchen,
pantries, scullery, and so forth, with the servants’
bedrooms on the upper storey. Of more modest
proportions, but full of feeling in its quiet demure
simplicity, is the little house at Winslow, Bucking-
hamshire, evidently designed for a country doctor,
and with easy ingenuity allowing separate access to
his surgery and consulting-room from the main
road, the main entrance being reached through the
garden. A doctor’s house also is the other
pleasing little study on page 161. This has not
yet been translated into stone, but one can well
imagine its unobtrusive charm nestled among the
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