Studio: international art (34.1905)

Recent Designs for Domestic Architecture

ARNOLD MITCHELL, ARCHITECT

Barnett Hill is now being built near Guildford,
from the designs of Mr. Arnold Mitchell, on a
lovely site upon the top of one of the Surrey hills,
with superb views round all points of the compass.
Attention is drawn to the plan of this house. The
utmost comfort in working the house is secured,
and, though not a large building, examination will
show the more than usual amount of privacy the
best rooms obtain from all the service departments.
The entrance corridor, with its panelled white
walls and semi-circular plaster-enriched ceiling,
gives access into the oak-panelled hall. The
walls here are to be treated with a detached
colonnade, with overhanging cornice and deep
circular heads, the idea being, whilst keeping uni-
formity of style, to obtain the maximum of
contrast with the corridor and rooms into which
it opens. The rooms will be again in white, so
that lightness and cheerfulness may be the

dominant note. The principal staircase to the
first floor has a domical ceiling, carried a storey
higher, with an open colonnade and gallery round,
somewhat upon the lines of the well-known
example at Ashburnham House, the whole in
enriched plaster, and treated entirely in white
except that the doors are in mahogany. The
stable quadrangle and the walled garden abut
upon the house, and are all in the same style.
A compactness and workableness is thus given
to the whole scheme, which secures the economy
of a small establishment, together with a large
measure of the stateliness and appearance of a
large place. The materials are local bricks of
considerable variety of tone, which, with the rich
yellow-brown of the Ham stone dressings, the
orange-tinted rubbers, and the rough hand-made
tiles upon the roofs, constitute a highly attractive
scheme of colour.

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