DOI issue:
Nr. 188 (November 1908)
DOI article:Recent designs in domestic architecture
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.20965#0143
Recent Designs in Domestic Architecture
building, consisting of a gardener’s cottage, laundry,
etc., has been recently erected near the roadway
between Oxshott and Esher, on a site surrounded
by the Common and backed by the woods of Clare-
mont. At one end is a separate cottage for a gar-
dener, and at the other the laundrymaid’s house
and laundry. This has been arranged in an up-to-
date manner with every possible appliance for saving
unnecessary labour. The walls are built of sand-
faced bricks, varied in colour just as they come
from the kiln, set with wide mortar joints. The
roofs are covered with old pantiles and the walls
are partly hung with tiles from some old buildings
pulled down on the site. Oak bargeboards, etc.,
and leaded lights and iron casements complete the
external furnishings. The architect is Mr. E.
Guy Dawber.
Apropos of Somersby House, Pollokshields, of
which two views and a plan are given (see pp. 122-3),
our Glasgow correspondent
writes : — “ The spirit of
the olden time has taken
strong hold of the modern
architect in Scotland ; he
sees in the work of the
men of the seventeenth
and eighteenth centuries a
vigour and versatility that
carry inspiration in the
effort to redeem the house
from the commonplace character it assumed during
the greater part of the Victorian era. It must not
be assumed, however, that the men of to-day are
slaves to tradition ; they have too much individu-
ality to answer to such a charge, but inasmuch
as all style is evolutionary they make a foundation
of that which is best in the old, and rear a
superstructure equal to the idea and requirement
of a new, an intellectual, and a rational generation.
There are few Scottish architects whose work
answers more to this description that Mr. H. E.
Clifford. He is a classicist, yet he does not
sacrifice rationality for style ; he is in fact an
individualist free from the modern taint of eccen-
tricity. Somersby House is a recent example of his
architecture ; it stands in one of the most popular
residential districts of Glasgow, and is built of
fine yellow stone, in the style of the Scottish
Renaissance, the elevation suggesting a strength
COMBINED COTTAGE AND LAUNDRY AT COPSEHAM, SURREY E. GUY DAWBER, ARCHITECT
12 I
building, consisting of a gardener’s cottage, laundry,
etc., has been recently erected near the roadway
between Oxshott and Esher, on a site surrounded
by the Common and backed by the woods of Clare-
mont. At one end is a separate cottage for a gar-
dener, and at the other the laundrymaid’s house
and laundry. This has been arranged in an up-to-
date manner with every possible appliance for saving
unnecessary labour. The walls are built of sand-
faced bricks, varied in colour just as they come
from the kiln, set with wide mortar joints. The
roofs are covered with old pantiles and the walls
are partly hung with tiles from some old buildings
pulled down on the site. Oak bargeboards, etc.,
and leaded lights and iron casements complete the
external furnishings. The architect is Mr. E.
Guy Dawber.
Apropos of Somersby House, Pollokshields, of
which two views and a plan are given (see pp. 122-3),
our Glasgow correspondent
writes : — “ The spirit of
the olden time has taken
strong hold of the modern
architect in Scotland ; he
sees in the work of the
men of the seventeenth
and eighteenth centuries a
vigour and versatility that
carry inspiration in the
effort to redeem the house
from the commonplace character it assumed during
the greater part of the Victorian era. It must not
be assumed, however, that the men of to-day are
slaves to tradition ; they have too much individu-
ality to answer to such a charge, but inasmuch
as all style is evolutionary they make a foundation
of that which is best in the old, and rear a
superstructure equal to the idea and requirement
of a new, an intellectual, and a rational generation.
There are few Scottish architects whose work
answers more to this description that Mr. H. E.
Clifford. He is a classicist, yet he does not
sacrifice rationality for style ; he is in fact an
individualist free from the modern taint of eccen-
tricity. Somersby House is a recent example of his
architecture ; it stands in one of the most popular
residential districts of Glasgow, and is built of
fine yellow stone, in the style of the Scottish
Renaissance, the elevation suggesting a strength
COMBINED COTTAGE AND LAUNDRY AT COPSEHAM, SURREY E. GUY DAWBER, ARCHITECT
12 I