Studio: international art (36.1906)

Some Recent Designs in Domestic Architecture

bedrooms, and is economical in plan and, therefore,
in cost. The one-story annexe is the billiard-room.
The house at Harrow is in white plaster, with
dark-red tiles for the roof, the bays being of white
stone. “ Woodside,” Great Stanmore, of which the
ground and first-floor plans are given, is a small
house of red brick, with tile-hung upper story.

Mr. Castle’s proposed cottages near Market
Drayton are suggested to be faced with soft red
bricks in uneven tints, and the roofs are to be
covered with red sand-faced tiles at an angle of
50 degs. The ridges and hips would be formed
up of half-round ridge tiles in uneven lengths and
the valleys in shaped tiles curving into roof so that
there is no definite angle revealed. The diapers

between the windowsfare formed by three courses
of roofing tiles taking the place of a stretcher in
the brickwork bond. The woodwork would be of
deal, and where showing externally would be
painted white, and the details kept very simple
with a view to economy. The fixed lights would
be glazed direct to frames, and iron casements used
to opening lights with good broad leads in the
glazing. The front doors are quite simple, and fitted
with brass Norfolk latches. All the outside iron-
work is to be painted green. The gutters are half-
round, and are supported by broad iron eaves
brackets. The flooring to the kitchens, bathrooms,
and offices is to be 12 inches by 12 inches red quarry
tiles. It is proposed to make the foreground to

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PROPOSED COTTAGES NEAR MARKET DRAYTON