Studio: international art (38.1906)

Recent Designs in Domestic Architecture

“gallop’s HOMESTEAD,” SUSSEX:
LIBRARY FIREPLACE

from what cause cannot be guessed, but it was
hoped it might be gold, for 200 feet of boring
leave little behind it of interest to any but the
geologist save a bill ! The water found, and a
well sunk, there had to be solved the problem

of how to get it to the
house up a hill of about
50 feet. Horrible visions
of windmills and elevated
tanks disturbed the rest of
our architect for many a
night, until there came the
happy idea of an engine to
drive a motor for half the
day, and for the other half
a dynamo generating power
for lighting the house. A
clever contrivance in con-
nection with this may be
mentioned en passant. The
tank being full, the water
from the overflow drips
upon a lever, which, com-
municating with the engine,
causes it to stop.

A glance at the illus-
trations will give some
notion of the many old-fashioned ideas it embodies,
pleasant both in their simplicity and strength. The
exterior of the upper floor rooms is oak weather-
boarding, which to the far-seeing suggests future
dreams of colouring. Very funny were some of the

H. BRYANT NEWBOLD,
ARCHITECT