Studio: international art (51.1911)

Recent Designs in Domestic Architecture

finished white. The roof is covered with old
stone flags and ridges. The eaves, gutters, and
down spouts are in wood with wood brackets.
The plan is compact and well arranged, the kitchen
being conveniently placed, both for the front-door
and dining-room. There is a large living-room
with folding-doors opening into the dining-room,
so that the two rooms may be thrown into one
should occasion require. On the upper floor are
four bedrooms and lavatory accommodation.
Internally, the rooms have beamed ceilings and
batten doors with wrought-iron fittings. The
inglenook and fireplaces are finished in bricks and
Dutch tiles, the inglenook having a dog-grate. All
the walls are finished with sanded surface, and
coloured buff. The garden has been designed by
the architects, and the present trees carefully
preserved, all the steps, terrace, etc., being carried
out in old materials.

The site of the house at Wantage, also designed
by Messrs. Fair & Myer, is some two miles from

COTTAGE AT OVERTON, CHESHIRE

FAIR & MYER, ARCHITECTS

the town, just within
a plantation, in which
some of the trees have
been cut down to allow
of erecting the house;
while on the garden front
side an opening has been
cut so as to get a distant
view of the surround-
ing country. Externally,
multicoloured hand-made
sand stocks with brushed-
out joints form the main
body of the walls, and a
somewhat brighter-toned
brick is used for the
quoin ends. The centre
portion is plastered and
finished a broken white.
The window- frames are
oak, and enclose iron
casements and leaded
lights. Old tiles are used
on the roof. Internally,
the house has had many
of the interesting details
of the late seventeenth
century introduced, care
being taken that no
material of a later date

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