DOI issue:
No. 96 (March, 1901)
DOI article:Wood, Esther: Some modern cottages
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19787#0130
Some Modern Cottages.
cottages and reading room at flax hourtox walter f. cave, architect
Backwell and at Down End are charming instances wold. It must be remembered, however, that
of this, no pair being quite alike. The walls are certain materials proper to a site may sometimes
very simply treated, in plain rough-cast, and the be expensive in use, as stone slates, which demand
tiled roofs pleasantly broken by casement windows, very stout timbers to carry their extra weight. The
At North Stoke is another beautiful little group, insufficiency of the ordinary nine-inch wall for
set on a slope. An arch to admit carts breaks the exposed sites is another point which Mr. Cave
block in the centre, and the windows are quite insists on, even when the outside is rough-cast with
irregularly set. Mr. Cave has a wholesome love of Portland cement. He believes in pitch-pine as the
local materials and a keen eye for their possibilities best substitute for oak, but prefers it left straight
in mass and colour. The use of such materials has from the saw, and touched neither with chisel nor
an aesthetic value over and above the question of plane. By this method he secures a fine and
economy. It makes for
that harmony which we
enjoy in a landscape when
its buildings are a part of
its natural constituents,
sympathetically handled,
when the cottage walls
and the trees that shelter
them belong to one
' another by an indigenous
tie. Each has grown up in
the climate of the place,
and the very colours blend
through familiar kinship ;
so that a foreign element
would jar upon the
setting, as a Derbyshire
stone wall would jar upon
beech-woods, or a Cornish
fisher-hut upon a Surrey cottages at downend waiter f. cave, architect
108
cottages and reading room at flax hourtox walter f. cave, architect
Backwell and at Down End are charming instances wold. It must be remembered, however, that
of this, no pair being quite alike. The walls are certain materials proper to a site may sometimes
very simply treated, in plain rough-cast, and the be expensive in use, as stone slates, which demand
tiled roofs pleasantly broken by casement windows, very stout timbers to carry their extra weight. The
At North Stoke is another beautiful little group, insufficiency of the ordinary nine-inch wall for
set on a slope. An arch to admit carts breaks the exposed sites is another point which Mr. Cave
block in the centre, and the windows are quite insists on, even when the outside is rough-cast with
irregularly set. Mr. Cave has a wholesome love of Portland cement. He believes in pitch-pine as the
local materials and a keen eye for their possibilities best substitute for oak, but prefers it left straight
in mass and colour. The use of such materials has from the saw, and touched neither with chisel nor
an aesthetic value over and above the question of plane. By this method he secures a fine and
economy. It makes for
that harmony which we
enjoy in a landscape when
its buildings are a part of
its natural constituents,
sympathetically handled,
when the cottage walls
and the trees that shelter
them belong to one
' another by an indigenous
tie. Each has grown up in
the climate of the place,
and the very colours blend
through familiar kinship ;
so that a foreign element
would jar upon the
setting, as a Derbyshire
stone wall would jar upon
beech-woods, or a Cornish
fisher-hut upon a Surrey cottages at downend waiter f. cave, architect
108