DOI Heft:
No. 199 (October, 1909)
DOI Artikel:Recent designs in domestic architecture
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.20968#0073
Recent Designs in Domestic Architecture
added probably the stair-
case seen in the illustration
below and painted the
panelling and carved
wood beams. In this con-
dition it remained prac-
tically until it came into
the possession of Mr.
Buxton.
The recent alterations
and repairs have been
carried out for Mr. Buxton
under the direction ot
Mr. Ernest Beckwith, of
Coggeshall, and the carv-
ing has been executed by
his pupil, Mr. Edgar. In
reviewing the result one
can feel that it was a
" FAYCOCKES," COGGESHALL: A GROUND FLOOR ROOM IN THE EAST WING happy an(} wJse thought
which inspired Mr. Buxton
The main structure is oblong in form, and faces to? entrust the undertaking to an able craftsman
West Street Two wings project at the back, but living in the neighbourhood rather than to the expert,
both of these were probably later additions rendered however scholarly he might be. This, however, in
necessary by the growth of the business carried on itself would not have been sufficient. But Mr.
in the house, the journeymen and apprentices, who Beckwith brought to the work also an intimate know-
no doubt at first worked with their employer, being ledge of the structure, a reverence for it and that
probably relegated to one of the wings, with a unconscious regard for integrity of workmanship
separate entrance approached through the large more characteristic of mediasval and Early Renais-
entrance doors (opposite). sance times than of the Present day- A Practical
The alterations to the house made during knowledge of carving and woodwork, years of
Georgian times were of a disastrous character, apprenticeship to the repairing of old work, were
The owner cut away part
of it to make it fit the
it. „]„„ "PAVCOCKES," COGGESHALL: HALL AND STAIRCASE
new position, tie aiso
5i
added probably the stair-
case seen in the illustration
below and painted the
panelling and carved
wood beams. In this con-
dition it remained prac-
tically until it came into
the possession of Mr.
Buxton.
The recent alterations
and repairs have been
carried out for Mr. Buxton
under the direction ot
Mr. Ernest Beckwith, of
Coggeshall, and the carv-
ing has been executed by
his pupil, Mr. Edgar. In
reviewing the result one
can feel that it was a
" FAYCOCKES," COGGESHALL: A GROUND FLOOR ROOM IN THE EAST WING happy an(} wJse thought
which inspired Mr. Buxton
The main structure is oblong in form, and faces to? entrust the undertaking to an able craftsman
West Street Two wings project at the back, but living in the neighbourhood rather than to the expert,
both of these were probably later additions rendered however scholarly he might be. This, however, in
necessary by the growth of the business carried on itself would not have been sufficient. But Mr.
in the house, the journeymen and apprentices, who Beckwith brought to the work also an intimate know-
no doubt at first worked with their employer, being ledge of the structure, a reverence for it and that
probably relegated to one of the wings, with a unconscious regard for integrity of workmanship
separate entrance approached through the large more characteristic of mediasval and Early Renais-
entrance doors (opposite). sance times than of the Present day- A Practical
The alterations to the house made during knowledge of carving and woodwork, years of
Georgian times were of a disastrous character, apprenticeship to the repairing of old work, were
The owner cut away part
of it to make it fit the
it. „]„„ "PAVCOCKES," COGGESHALL: HALL AND STAIRCASE
new position, tie aiso
5i