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#0052
A Rebuilt Village
cloaks, with a fussy
patronage on the part of
the donor so distasteful
to the sturdy independ-
ence of the village la-
bourer.
Standing apart at the
upper end of the village
may be seen a pretty
cottage with an oak
shingled turret, appro-
priated as a coachman's
lodge, also an entrance
gate lodge, of which two
views are given here, to-
gether with a plan of the
latter, showing a parlour
in addition to the living-
room, also four good bed-
COTTAGES WITH FROM THREE TO FIVE BEDROOMS MESSRS. DOUGLAS AND rOOmS. The SpacioUS en-
IN NESTON ROAD, THORNTON HOUGH FORDHAM, ARCHITECTS , , j
tiance porch adds a very
inviting appearance to
the front, and the situa-
he takes in the adornment of his cottage buildings, tion of this lodge in relation to the entrance gates,
regardless of a financial return for his outlay in opening to a fine avenue of trees, gives a charm to
every case; and with this the lovers of good archi- the picture, which is inadequately represented by
tecture will be little disposed to complain, because our illustration, because of the omission of these
out of this healthy impulse has grown the refined pleasant surroundings from the photograph. This
transformation of a whole village. If the sole aim gate lodge is said to be largely a reproduction of the
and object of building is money-making, art must old schoolhouse at Weobley, Herefordshire, a place
vanish from Thornton Hough and from many of old-time importance, eminently noted for its fine
places elsewhere.
A study of these, and
indeed of any of the
other plans of cottages
in Thornton Hough,
reveals the underlying
motive of the landlord
to be a solicitous care for
the decency and self-
respect of his tenants;
and this consideration
for comfort and welfare
in the home undoubt-
edly places the relations
between landlord and
tenant upon a higher
plane, and a more en-
during footing, than if
the interest were ex-
pressed by personal visits
to the cottagers, or by a
distribution of charity,
blankets and scarlet
36
COTTAGES WITH FROM THREE TO FIVE BEDROOMS MESSRS. DOUGLAS AND
IN NESTON ROAD, THORNTON HOUGH FORDHAM, ARCHITECTS
cloaks, with a fussy
patronage on the part of
the donor so distasteful
to the sturdy independ-
ence of the village la-
bourer.
Standing apart at the
upper end of the village
may be seen a pretty
cottage with an oak
shingled turret, appro-
priated as a coachman's
lodge, also an entrance
gate lodge, of which two
views are given here, to-
gether with a plan of the
latter, showing a parlour
in addition to the living-
room, also four good bed-
COTTAGES WITH FROM THREE TO FIVE BEDROOMS MESSRS. DOUGLAS AND rOOmS. The SpacioUS en-
IN NESTON ROAD, THORNTON HOUGH FORDHAM, ARCHITECTS , , j
tiance porch adds a very
inviting appearance to
the front, and the situa-
he takes in the adornment of his cottage buildings, tion of this lodge in relation to the entrance gates,
regardless of a financial return for his outlay in opening to a fine avenue of trees, gives a charm to
every case; and with this the lovers of good archi- the picture, which is inadequately represented by
tecture will be little disposed to complain, because our illustration, because of the omission of these
out of this healthy impulse has grown the refined pleasant surroundings from the photograph. This
transformation of a whole village. If the sole aim gate lodge is said to be largely a reproduction of the
and object of building is money-making, art must old schoolhouse at Weobley, Herefordshire, a place
vanish from Thornton Hough and from many of old-time importance, eminently noted for its fine
places elsewhere.
A study of these, and
indeed of any of the
other plans of cottages
in Thornton Hough,
reveals the underlying
motive of the landlord
to be a solicitous care for
the decency and self-
respect of his tenants;
and this consideration
for comfort and welfare
in the home undoubt-
edly places the relations
between landlord and
tenant upon a higher
plane, and a more en-
during footing, than if
the interest were ex-
pressed by personal visits
to the cottagers, or by a
distribution of charity,
blankets and scarlet
36
COTTAGES WITH FROM THREE TO FIVE BEDROOMS MESSRS. DOUGLAS AND
IN NESTON ROAD, THORNTON HOUGH FORDHAM, ARCHITECTS