DOI Heft:
Nr. 179 (February 1908)
DOI Artikel:Recent designs in domestic architecture
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.20777#0074
Recent Designs in Domestic Architecture
NEW COMBINATION ROOM, CAIUS COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE RESTORATION BY ARNOLD MITCHELL, ARCHITECT
Couch, an attempt has been made to reconcile the
English traditions of cosiness and cleanliness with
the violent climatic extremes of Northern Spain,
and to its setting in a mountainous landscape.
The site of this building is a pine wood facing the
Bay of Biscay, from which it is immediately pro-
tected by a natural harbour, and a good view of
the shipping at sea is obtained from the upper
terrace constructed for the purpose. In planning,
special provision has been made for the children,
who have their own study, dining-room, and lava-
tories in the west end of the house, and also a
private approach to the terrace. The kitchen
offices are in the basement, for the sake of coolness
during the summer months. On the upper floors
there are nineteen bedrooms and four bathrooms.
The principal stairs and the panelling to the walls
of the reception rooms are of oak, the greater part
of which has been worked in England and sent out.
Externally the walls are of perforated bricks—
peculiar to the district—covered with roughcast,
and a small use of facing bricks has been made
owing to the difficulty of securing skilled bricklayers.
All the windows have wood shutters, except a few
which are fitted with patent roll-up Venetian blinds.
The roofs are covered with hand-made tiles of
English manufacture.
Our final illustration this month shows an inter-
esting restoration carried out under the direction
of Mr. Arnold Mitchell, at Caius College, Cam-
bridge. An accidental repair in the ceiling of one
of three small, square whitewashed rooms brought
to light an old beam, and this led to the discovery
that the three rooms had in days gone by been
one (the partitions were comparatively recent).
It was decided to make a single room of them
again. All the ceiling-beams seen in the illustra-
tion are old ; the panelling, where new, is from
very old English oak obtained from the timbers of
an old battle-ship and left free from the tool after
working. The floor boards have been made from
old oak cut up and relaid. The frieze is new, and
was made in plaster so as to avoid the uneven-
nesses of the old beams of the ceiling clashing with
the straight lines of the wall-panelling. The room
is now the College Combination Room.
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NEW COMBINATION ROOM, CAIUS COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE RESTORATION BY ARNOLD MITCHELL, ARCHITECT
Couch, an attempt has been made to reconcile the
English traditions of cosiness and cleanliness with
the violent climatic extremes of Northern Spain,
and to its setting in a mountainous landscape.
The site of this building is a pine wood facing the
Bay of Biscay, from which it is immediately pro-
tected by a natural harbour, and a good view of
the shipping at sea is obtained from the upper
terrace constructed for the purpose. In planning,
special provision has been made for the children,
who have their own study, dining-room, and lava-
tories in the west end of the house, and also a
private approach to the terrace. The kitchen
offices are in the basement, for the sake of coolness
during the summer months. On the upper floors
there are nineteen bedrooms and four bathrooms.
The principal stairs and the panelling to the walls
of the reception rooms are of oak, the greater part
of which has been worked in England and sent out.
Externally the walls are of perforated bricks—
peculiar to the district—covered with roughcast,
and a small use of facing bricks has been made
owing to the difficulty of securing skilled bricklayers.
All the windows have wood shutters, except a few
which are fitted with patent roll-up Venetian blinds.
The roofs are covered with hand-made tiles of
English manufacture.
Our final illustration this month shows an inter-
esting restoration carried out under the direction
of Mr. Arnold Mitchell, at Caius College, Cam-
bridge. An accidental repair in the ceiling of one
of three small, square whitewashed rooms brought
to light an old beam, and this led to the discovery
that the three rooms had in days gone by been
one (the partitions were comparatively recent).
It was decided to make a single room of them
again. All the ceiling-beams seen in the illustra-
tion are old ; the panelling, where new, is from
very old English oak obtained from the timbers of
an old battle-ship and left free from the tool after
working. The floor boards have been made from
old oak cut up and relaid. The frieze is new, and
was made in plaster so as to avoid the uneven-
nesses of the old beams of the ceiling clashing with
the straight lines of the wall-panelling. The room
is now the College Combination Room.
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