DOI Heft:
Nr. 168 (March 1907)
DOI Artikel:Recent designs in domestic architecture
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.20774#0235
Recent Designs in Domestic Architecture
been founded by Mr. Sidney Hill, J.P., of Lang-
ford, Somerset, a generous philanthropist who has
already founded and endowed homes for middle-
class people of slender means in the village where
he resides, in addition to providing several Wesleyan
churches, ministers’ houses, and other buildings in
England and South Africa. These cottage homes
at Churchill, which are twelve in number, are
intended for the deserving poor, and a fund has
been set aside sufficient to produce an income of
^400 a year for their maintenance. The homes
are arranged on three sides of a quadrangle about
120 feet square. The third or south side is enclosed
by a low terrace wall, with fine wrought-iron entrance
gates, giving access to the working gardens with
which each inmate is provided. Arbours, with seats,
are placed at each end of the south terrace, whence
there is a most beautiful view towards the Mendip
hills. The quadrangle has a low parapet wall
running entirely round it, with steps leading down
to the lawn and flower beds, which are sunk some
two feet six inches below the level of the stone-
paved walks. In the centre will be a large stone
sundial, with a spreading base, around which seats
will be placed. Each house has upon the ground
floor a living-room and a bedroom, with a small
scullery, larder, coal-house, and usual offices, and
upstairs is one bedroom with a large storeroom.
The houses are free from the usual excrescences
at the back, there being, in fact, no backs at all as
generally understood, all the elevations being
equally important. The north front faces the road,
from which it is separated by a forecourt 200 feet long
by 50 feet deep. This forecourt, which will be laid
out with lawns and paved paths and beds, is some
five feet above the road level, and is approached
by a wide flight of steps. The boundary wall is a
low one, and is enriched with gate piers, wrought-
iron gates and richly carved vases placed at
intervals. The drawing from which our coloured
reproduction is made was hung in the Royal
Academy exhibition of last year.
In the December number of The Studio we
illustrated, amongst others, a thatched house at
Bury, in Sussex, by Mr. Charles Spooner, with
some notes on the principles which inspire his work.
II ISM
If II IS
HOUSE AT HINDHEAD (FRONT VIEW)
CHARLES SPOONER, ARCHITECT
213
been founded by Mr. Sidney Hill, J.P., of Lang-
ford, Somerset, a generous philanthropist who has
already founded and endowed homes for middle-
class people of slender means in the village where
he resides, in addition to providing several Wesleyan
churches, ministers’ houses, and other buildings in
England and South Africa. These cottage homes
at Churchill, which are twelve in number, are
intended for the deserving poor, and a fund has
been set aside sufficient to produce an income of
^400 a year for their maintenance. The homes
are arranged on three sides of a quadrangle about
120 feet square. The third or south side is enclosed
by a low terrace wall, with fine wrought-iron entrance
gates, giving access to the working gardens with
which each inmate is provided. Arbours, with seats,
are placed at each end of the south terrace, whence
there is a most beautiful view towards the Mendip
hills. The quadrangle has a low parapet wall
running entirely round it, with steps leading down
to the lawn and flower beds, which are sunk some
two feet six inches below the level of the stone-
paved walks. In the centre will be a large stone
sundial, with a spreading base, around which seats
will be placed. Each house has upon the ground
floor a living-room and a bedroom, with a small
scullery, larder, coal-house, and usual offices, and
upstairs is one bedroom with a large storeroom.
The houses are free from the usual excrescences
at the back, there being, in fact, no backs at all as
generally understood, all the elevations being
equally important. The north front faces the road,
from which it is separated by a forecourt 200 feet long
by 50 feet deep. This forecourt, which will be laid
out with lawns and paved paths and beds, is some
five feet above the road level, and is approached
by a wide flight of steps. The boundary wall is a
low one, and is enriched with gate piers, wrought-
iron gates and richly carved vases placed at
intervals. The drawing from which our coloured
reproduction is made was hung in the Royal
Academy exhibition of last year.
In the December number of The Studio we
illustrated, amongst others, a thatched house at
Bury, in Sussex, by Mr. Charles Spooner, with
some notes on the principles which inspire his work.
II ISM
If II IS
HOUSE AT HINDHEAD (FRONT VIEW)
CHARLES SPOONER, ARCHITECT
213