Studio: international art (43.1908)

Recent Designs in Domestic Architecture

manner of building, both in the cottages and the
larger houses. The desire is to retain and extend
this picturesque quality, and in this way create
what will be a unique seaside village. The design
is grouped around the very beautiful fifteenth-cen-
tury church, the tower of which is amongst the finest
in Norfolk. This tower will, in fact, form the focal
point of the main road entering Happisburgh from
North Walsham, and all the other new roads have
been carefully arranged in relation to it.

The house at Beaconsfield of which illus-
trations are here given of exterior and interior,
has been erected from the designs of Mr. P.
Morley Horder, F.R.I.B.A., on a site near the
station on land which was cut up into the usual
builder’s plots. Two sites were purchased on the
main road to mark off the property' from small
houses in the vicinity, and, in order to further secure
privacy, the house has been set back towards a
new road which has been laid out. The main

HOUSE AT BEACONSFIELD

P. MORLEY HORDER, F.R. I.B.A., ARCHITECT

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