Studio: international art (38.1906)

Recent Designs in Domestic Architecture

PLAN OF “.ALLANGATE,” R. HEYWOOD HASLAM,

RUSTINGTON, SUSSEX ARCHITECT

have been employed for the roof. The second of
the two views of the house, which we reproduce, is
from a photograph taken before the gardens were
laid out.

The last four illustrations are of a house in
Sussex, called “ Gallop’s Homestead,” which has

been modernised by Mr. Bryant Newbold,
a young architect who, we understand, has
quite recently gone to settle in Toronto,
Canada. It furnishes an interesting ex-
ample of what can be done in some parts
of the country where grandmotherly bye-
laws and regulations are not yet enforced.
The house is situated under the slopes of
the South Downs, and the aim has been
to secure peace and repose by simplicity
of treatment,—in fact, to bring about that
which should be the aim of every true
artist in architecture, a perfect harmony
with the natural surroundings. To this
end local materials were used wherever
possible. The roof, as will be seen from
the illustrations, is thatched with straw;
the rounded hips, undulating ridge, and
humped dormer windows give the house an
old-world appearance, and one more in har-
mony with nature than hard lines of tiles
or other material. The main walling was
built of bricks obtained from a cottage and
barn about three hundred years old, and, carefully
handled by sympathetic workmen, still retain their
green and grey tints of moss a,nd lichen. Again,
the chimney—a true type of these parts—was built
of Sussex shell stone dug out from the foundations.
The oak used for door beams and for the weather-

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R. HEYWOOD HASLAM, ARCHI1ECT