DOI issue:
No. 198 (September, 1908)
DOI article:Recent designs in domestic architecture
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.20967#0331
Recent Designs in Domestic Architecture
facings, with rough cast and old tiles for the roof.
The window frames and half timber work will be
of English oak. The garden falls rapidly from
the terrace towards the lawns and rose garden.
Mr. Stanley Hamp has also designed the group
of cottages illustrated on the opposite page. These
cottages are intended for the employees on an
estate near Beaconsfield, Bucks, and the accommo-
dation consists of two living rooms and three
bedrooms to each. The half timber work is to be
of English oak, and the roof is to be covered with
old tiles from barns which have been pulled down
on the estate. The contract price for these cottages
is ^875.
Howe Combe, Watlington, Oxon, illustrated on
page 298, is built in a combe of the Chilterns
overlooking Howe Hill on the road from Watling-
ton to Oxford. Its position was selected and the
planning largely influenced by the desire that all
important windows should command picturesque
views of valley and hill. Externally, the design
follows—in material at all events—methods tradi-
tional to the district, the walls being faced with a
mixture of grey and brown flints quoined and dia-
pered with red bricks—a combination which quickly
weathers to the tint of older buildings. Hand made
Leicestershire tiles have been used for the roofing.
All the arches over the windows are of tile, and the
recessed arch over the porch has voussoirs and key
of the same, this material being also used in
patterns where emphasis was considered desirable.
Tile “ straights ” are used over all lead soakers, and
this, a thoroughly practical expedient, effects a
more pleasing junction between wall and roof than
the stepped lead cover flashings commonly em-
ployed. The internal treatment is of the simplest,
but care has been bestowed upon all points of
constructive interest, the fireclay enamel sur-
rounds for fireplaces, with the decorative panels,
having all been made from the architect’s drawings,
as have all mantels and other fitments, such as
book-cases, sideboard, etc. The door furniture of
iron, “ sherardised ” and armour bright, was also
designed by the architect to harmonise with case-
ment fastenings of the same material, the latter
being copies of old examples. The entrance
door has bronze furniture also speci-
ally designed for its position. Leaded
lights and metal casements are used
throughout the main building. The
floors of the principal rooms are of oak,
the remainder (except the offices, which
are tiled) being of wood blocks on the
ground floor and on the upper floors of
narrow width deal. The external pavings
are of brick, those in the more impor-
tant parts being of two-inch bricks laid
herring-bone fashion. The work, in-
cluding drive, garden walls, lodge and
entrance gates, was designed and car-
ried out for A. H. Pawson, Esq., by
Mr. T. Frank Green, A.R.I.B.A., of
London, the general contractors being
Messrs. Hacksley Brothers of Welling-
borough.
Arts and Crafts Exhibition
Society. — Under the presidency of
Mr. Walter Crane, this Society, founded
in 1888, held annual exhibitions during
the first three years of its existence;
but from the beginning of the late Mr.
William Morris’s presidency (1893-96)
the exhibitions have been triennial.
Thus, though the Society is more than
twenty years old, its forthcoming exhibi-
tion to be held at the New Gallery in
297
HOUSE AT GERRARD’S CROSS, BUCKS STANLEY HAMP, ARCHITECT
facings, with rough cast and old tiles for the roof.
The window frames and half timber work will be
of English oak. The garden falls rapidly from
the terrace towards the lawns and rose garden.
Mr. Stanley Hamp has also designed the group
of cottages illustrated on the opposite page. These
cottages are intended for the employees on an
estate near Beaconsfield, Bucks, and the accommo-
dation consists of two living rooms and three
bedrooms to each. The half timber work is to be
of English oak, and the roof is to be covered with
old tiles from barns which have been pulled down
on the estate. The contract price for these cottages
is ^875.
Howe Combe, Watlington, Oxon, illustrated on
page 298, is built in a combe of the Chilterns
overlooking Howe Hill on the road from Watling-
ton to Oxford. Its position was selected and the
planning largely influenced by the desire that all
important windows should command picturesque
views of valley and hill. Externally, the design
follows—in material at all events—methods tradi-
tional to the district, the walls being faced with a
mixture of grey and brown flints quoined and dia-
pered with red bricks—a combination which quickly
weathers to the tint of older buildings. Hand made
Leicestershire tiles have been used for the roofing.
All the arches over the windows are of tile, and the
recessed arch over the porch has voussoirs and key
of the same, this material being also used in
patterns where emphasis was considered desirable.
Tile “ straights ” are used over all lead soakers, and
this, a thoroughly practical expedient, effects a
more pleasing junction between wall and roof than
the stepped lead cover flashings commonly em-
ployed. The internal treatment is of the simplest,
but care has been bestowed upon all points of
constructive interest, the fireclay enamel sur-
rounds for fireplaces, with the decorative panels,
having all been made from the architect’s drawings,
as have all mantels and other fitments, such as
book-cases, sideboard, etc. The door furniture of
iron, “ sherardised ” and armour bright, was also
designed by the architect to harmonise with case-
ment fastenings of the same material, the latter
being copies of old examples. The entrance
door has bronze furniture also speci-
ally designed for its position. Leaded
lights and metal casements are used
throughout the main building. The
floors of the principal rooms are of oak,
the remainder (except the offices, which
are tiled) being of wood blocks on the
ground floor and on the upper floors of
narrow width deal. The external pavings
are of brick, those in the more impor-
tant parts being of two-inch bricks laid
herring-bone fashion. The work, in-
cluding drive, garden walls, lodge and
entrance gates, was designed and car-
ried out for A. H. Pawson, Esq., by
Mr. T. Frank Green, A.R.I.B.A., of
London, the general contractors being
Messrs. Hacksley Brothers of Welling-
borough.
Arts and Crafts Exhibition
Society. — Under the presidency of
Mr. Walter Crane, this Society, founded
in 1888, held annual exhibitions during
the first three years of its existence;
but from the beginning of the late Mr.
William Morris’s presidency (1893-96)
the exhibitions have been triennial.
Thus, though the Society is more than
twenty years old, its forthcoming exhibi-
tion to be held at the New Gallery in
297
HOUSE AT GERRARD’S CROSS, BUCKS STANLEY HAMP, ARCHITECT