Studio: international art (34.1905)

Designs for Domestic Architecture

and the gardens of the
latter, which contain some
pleasant fruit trees and
quaint old box and other
hedges, are being preserved
to form a pleasant retreat
for the dusty traveller who
stops at the inn for refresh-
ment. The yard of the inn
has been adapted as much
as possible to the idea of
the old English inns of
Dickens's time or earlier,
with the bar-parlour in the
corner and outside steps

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leading to the club-room,
etc. As in the other

cases local stone, brick, rough cast, and half timber carried out by the estate workpeople, under the

form the chief materials in the construction, and control of an energetic clerk of works. The result

the buildings are grouped as naturally as possible, is working out very happily, as slight changes and

and will present, it is hoped, a pleasant picture of improvements can be made as the work goes on,

village life. Everything in the new buildings is and the architect, Mr. E. Guy Dawber, is not

simple, yet strong and good ; nothing in the way bound down to a rigid contract, in which the least

of ostentation or ornament having been attempted, variation becomes that much-dreaded thing an

since nothing is so out 01 place as ostentation and " extra." An illustration of a portion of the village

ornament in any village. The work is all being as designed by Mr. Dawber appears on page 338.

ALMSHOUSES
336

MESSRS. WOOLFALL & ECCLES, ARCHITECTS