DOI Heft:
No. 131 (February, 1904)
DOI Artikel:Bare, Blommfield H.: Thornton Hough, Cheshire: a rebuilt village
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19881#0047
A Rebirilt Village
build an entirely new
village, but how to
rebuild an old one.
Absolutely irreclaim-
able cottages only were
pulled down ; those that
were at all adaptable to
modern requirements
were altered and re-
paired.
The rebuilding was not
always done on the old
sites, but as far as pos-
sible the general outline
of the village was pre-
served, and a score or
more of additional cot-
tages have been erected
bungalow cottages in messrs. grayson and ould to suPPlv tne growing
raby road, Thornton hough architects requirements of the
farm - labourers; and
the tenancy is confined
So the externally picturesque relics 01 bygone almost entirely to this class,
times, their crumbling sandstone walls, thatched Mr. Lever has not been discouraged by the fact
roofs, and climbing roses had to vanish before that one per cent, is all the direct return upon his
the inevitable intrusion of modern ideas demand- investment. In his view, if rents were raised above
ing decent family accommodation and wholesome the amount the village labourer can afford to pay,
sanitation. the majority of the tenants would be forced away,
Yet this was not accomplished without some and the value of his farms in the parish would be
unwillingness on the part of the inhabitants to be depreciated through the labourers not being housed
removed from the old ruins to which they had within the same district; but, by retaining the
become attached. original village population, he thus gains jndirectly
To an energetic landlord such as Mr. W. H. Lever, upon the value of the farm property,
with power and means to carry out his reforming The simplest of the dwellings, planned by
instincts, the problem, it appears, was not how to Messrs. Grayson & Ould, of Liverpool, form a
plans of bungalow gottages,
raby road, thornton hough
messrs. grayson and ould,
architects
build an entirely new
village, but how to
rebuild an old one.
Absolutely irreclaim-
able cottages only were
pulled down ; those that
were at all adaptable to
modern requirements
were altered and re-
paired.
The rebuilding was not
always done on the old
sites, but as far as pos-
sible the general outline
of the village was pre-
served, and a score or
more of additional cot-
tages have been erected
bungalow cottages in messrs. grayson and ould to suPPlv tne growing
raby road, Thornton hough architects requirements of the
farm - labourers; and
the tenancy is confined
So the externally picturesque relics 01 bygone almost entirely to this class,
times, their crumbling sandstone walls, thatched Mr. Lever has not been discouraged by the fact
roofs, and climbing roses had to vanish before that one per cent, is all the direct return upon his
the inevitable intrusion of modern ideas demand- investment. In his view, if rents were raised above
ing decent family accommodation and wholesome the amount the village labourer can afford to pay,
sanitation. the majority of the tenants would be forced away,
Yet this was not accomplished without some and the value of his farms in the parish would be
unwillingness on the part of the inhabitants to be depreciated through the labourers not being housed
removed from the old ruins to which they had within the same district; but, by retaining the
become attached. original village population, he thus gains jndirectly
To an energetic landlord such as Mr. W. H. Lever, upon the value of the farm property,
with power and means to carry out his reforming The simplest of the dwellings, planned by
instincts, the problem, it appears, was not how to Messrs. Grayson & Ould, of Liverpool, form a
plans of bungalow gottages,
raby road, thornton hough
messrs. grayson and ould,
architects