Studio: international art (22.1901)

Some Modern Cottages.

with the chisel. The plaster
panels over the fireplace are
set back three or four inches
to form shelves for pipes or
vases. Bookshelves are
formed in the thickness of
the wall . on either the
angle opening or bay. The
external elevation is
principally of rough cast,
the brick corner projecting
aflush with the plaster.
Slips of stone frame the
windows and the coping, and

pair of cottages with common dining-room g. i.l. morris, architect

stone figures suggestive
of bantams are placed at

Flax Bourton, Somerset, of which we give the the foot of the gable.

elevation and plans. Mr. George LI. Morris goes The interesting single cottage for a work-
farther in his design for a pair of cottages with a man, designed and carried out under the direc-
common dining - room in the centre. A large tion of Mr. W. Troup, shows an arrangement
scullery common to both, with an oven for baking on both ground and first floor which within
purposes, would be perhaps preferable to the certain limits it would be difficult to better. Built
arrangement shown. The first floor has three on the side of a hill, a portion of the basement is
decent-sized bedrooms, with bath-room and naturally utilised for a tool-house, coal-shed, etc.
offices added. A bath-room is usual in the The plan of both ground and first floor is very
cottages on the Port Sunlight Estate, and to some simple. A living-room entered from a little porch
extent at the mining village of Cress-
well. All the rooms and fittings,
with the exception of the common-
room, are kept free of ornament,
except in so far as the actual neces-
saries and fittings may be made
beautiful in the fulfilment of their
several duties. In the common
room it is suggested that the quarter-
ing of the partitions should be of
sufficient thickness to project slightly
beyond the face of the plastered
panels, the face of the quartering

worked with a saw; mouldings, first-floor plan of a pair of cottages g. ll. morris, .architect

cross-pieces, head-pieces, and cells
are introduced as part of the con-
struction, morticed, turned, and
pinned into one another as illus-
trated. The elevation towards the
fireplace has on each side of the grate
a panel arranged in alternate rows of
brick and tile—buff brick and red
tiles. The back of the seat on each
side of the fireplace is of horizontal
boards, fixed by means of large pins
driven into the wooden upright that
forms the basis. The diamond
and circle shapes are gouged out ground-floor plan of a pair of cottages g. ll. morris, architect
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