DOI Heft:
No. 163 (October, 1906)
DOI Artikel:Recent designs in domestic architecture
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.20716#0076
Recent Designs in Domestic Architecture
PORT SUNLIGHT COTTAGE COMPETITION DESIGN BY "SUDS" (T. PICKMERE)
PORT SUNLIGHT COTTAGE COMPETITION DESIGN BY "ROUGHCAST" (T. V. HENSHAW)
scullery (with bath and washing boiler), and pantry of the front entrance. No space is lost in passages,
on ground floor, and three bedrooms on first floor; The range, cylinder, bath and sink all come into
the cost not to exceed ^275 for each cottage, and line, so as to minimise the cost of hot-water service,
for a house with parlour on ground floor and one A hinged cover placed over the bath in the scullery
additional bedroom upstairs not to exceed ^375. permits it to be used as a table in conjunction
The crux of the seven cottage group seemed to with the sink. The plinths and interiors of re-
be the turning of the obtuse angle of the site, a cessed porches are faced with red pressed bricks;
problem Messrs. Deacon & Horsburgh solved in the rest of the facing is rough-cast finished a
an admirably simple and natural manner, by fitting warm tone. The roofs are covered with Ruabon
in the parlour house on the angle of the two roads, brindled tiles. Living-room is laid with solid wood
without spoiling the shape of the yard spaces in floor and the scullery and pantry with tiles. The
the rear, a point in which many of the other com- cubical contents of their design allowed $\d. per
petitors failed. Their plan is based upon general cubic foot to do the building for the stipulated
experience of local requirements. Staircases are sum of ,£2,025. Mr. T. T. Rees submitted a
easy and without winders, and are well lighted good, workable plan with the parlour house well
by dormers or by skylights over landings. The arranged on the angle of the roads, and good,
stairs open out of the living-room (screened by practical designs in this group were also sent in by
a door) so as to avoid the draught and publicity Mr. Ernest C. Aldridge and Mr. Mathew Honan.
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PORT SUNLIGHT COTTAGE COMPETITION DESIGN BY "SUDS" (T. PICKMERE)
PORT SUNLIGHT COTTAGE COMPETITION DESIGN BY "ROUGHCAST" (T. V. HENSHAW)
scullery (with bath and washing boiler), and pantry of the front entrance. No space is lost in passages,
on ground floor, and three bedrooms on first floor; The range, cylinder, bath and sink all come into
the cost not to exceed ^275 for each cottage, and line, so as to minimise the cost of hot-water service,
for a house with parlour on ground floor and one A hinged cover placed over the bath in the scullery
additional bedroom upstairs not to exceed ^375. permits it to be used as a table in conjunction
The crux of the seven cottage group seemed to with the sink. The plinths and interiors of re-
be the turning of the obtuse angle of the site, a cessed porches are faced with red pressed bricks;
problem Messrs. Deacon & Horsburgh solved in the rest of the facing is rough-cast finished a
an admirably simple and natural manner, by fitting warm tone. The roofs are covered with Ruabon
in the parlour house on the angle of the two roads, brindled tiles. Living-room is laid with solid wood
without spoiling the shape of the yard spaces in floor and the scullery and pantry with tiles. The
the rear, a point in which many of the other com- cubical contents of their design allowed $\d. per
petitors failed. Their plan is based upon general cubic foot to do the building for the stipulated
experience of local requirements. Staircases are sum of ,£2,025. Mr. T. T. Rees submitted a
easy and without winders, and are well lighted good, workable plan with the parlour house well
by dormers or by skylights over landings. The arranged on the angle of the roads, and good,
stairs open out of the living-room (screened by practical designs in this group were also sent in by
a door) so as to avoid the draught and publicity Mr. Ernest C. Aldridge and Mr. Mathew Honan.
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