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Nr. 148 (July 1905)
DOI Artikel:Recent designs for domestic architecture
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.20712#0167
Recent Designs for Domestic Architecture
ENTRANCE HALL : HOUSE AT COLLINGHAM
V\c’ f
PERCY ROBINSON, ARCHITECT
associated with the place. This has been helped
because the rich colouring of the old material
lends itself effectively to preserving these associa-
tions. Wherever possible, the greatest care has
been exercised to use effectively stones which are
covered with moss and lichen which grew over
them as they stood for years as part of the walls
of the old building. Their use in this manner has
proved extremely successful. As regards the plan
of the house, this is so arranged as to permit of
large extensions, but in the present building much
stateliness of effect is secured by the two-storeyed
hall with its grand staircase and gallery, with its
stonework above the oak panelling. This state-
liness is also preserved in the drawing-room,
which is some sixty feet in length and high in
proportion.
With its mediaeval traditions of arrangement
and of plan every care has been taken to make
the house at the same time economical for work-
ing, and to secure to the residents all the comforts
of modern times. Hot-water services and such-
like luxuries unknown in olden times, are to be
found throughout arranged after the most perfected
and convenient patterns. No effort is being spared
to improve the estate itself upon which the house
is built, and every endeavour is being made to
regard, and it possible increase, the beauty which
it derives from the natural surroundings of a
romantic situation.
There can be no subject more interesting to the
architect than the planning of small country houses
or cottages. And owing to the growing tendency
nowadays amongst people of moderate means to
lead a sort of dual life,
to possess a small country
house, to which they can
run down on occasion to
counteract the distracting
effects of the bustle and
worry of town life, nothing
falls to the lot of the
architect more frequently
than the planning of
such small houses or
cottages.
The problem which in
nearly every case faces
the architect is one of
how to provide a house
containing a maximum
of accommodation, com-
bined with comfort and
artistic effect, at the least
possible cost. The House at CoUi?tgham designed by
Mr. Percy Robinson, provides an example of what
can be done in the way of building a cottage quite
useful and durable, and also attractive in appear-
ance, whilst at the same time these qualities are
PLAN OF HOUSE AT PERCY ROBINSON, ARCHITECT
COLLINGHAM
149
ENTRANCE HALL : HOUSE AT COLLINGHAM
V\c’ f
PERCY ROBINSON, ARCHITECT
associated with the place. This has been helped
because the rich colouring of the old material
lends itself effectively to preserving these associa-
tions. Wherever possible, the greatest care has
been exercised to use effectively stones which are
covered with moss and lichen which grew over
them as they stood for years as part of the walls
of the old building. Their use in this manner has
proved extremely successful. As regards the plan
of the house, this is so arranged as to permit of
large extensions, but in the present building much
stateliness of effect is secured by the two-storeyed
hall with its grand staircase and gallery, with its
stonework above the oak panelling. This state-
liness is also preserved in the drawing-room,
which is some sixty feet in length and high in
proportion.
With its mediaeval traditions of arrangement
and of plan every care has been taken to make
the house at the same time economical for work-
ing, and to secure to the residents all the comforts
of modern times. Hot-water services and such-
like luxuries unknown in olden times, are to be
found throughout arranged after the most perfected
and convenient patterns. No effort is being spared
to improve the estate itself upon which the house
is built, and every endeavour is being made to
regard, and it possible increase, the beauty which
it derives from the natural surroundings of a
romantic situation.
There can be no subject more interesting to the
architect than the planning of small country houses
or cottages. And owing to the growing tendency
nowadays amongst people of moderate means to
lead a sort of dual life,
to possess a small country
house, to which they can
run down on occasion to
counteract the distracting
effects of the bustle and
worry of town life, nothing
falls to the lot of the
architect more frequently
than the planning of
such small houses or
cottages.
The problem which in
nearly every case faces
the architect is one of
how to provide a house
containing a maximum
of accommodation, com-
bined with comfort and
artistic effect, at the least
possible cost. The House at CoUi?tgham designed by
Mr. Percy Robinson, provides an example of what
can be done in the way of building a cottage quite
useful and durable, and also attractive in appear-
ance, whilst at the same time these qualities are
PLAN OF HOUSE AT PERCY ROBINSON, ARCHITECT
COLLINGHAM
149