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Recent Designs in Domestic Architecture

approached from a gallery
looking down into the
hall place. Oak, cedar
and kauri pine have been
used in these rooms for
doors, dados, cupboards,
etc., and the floors are of
mOB&a oak and pitch pine.

'N > > The natural way in

Ml jBt&r which the house merges

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ness which most buildings
wear when they leave the
contractor's hands, and
the effects to be obtained
by the varied plant life
which clings to walls and

grizedale hall, lancashire : the south front and terrace roofs ill the Lake COUntry

walker, carter & walker, architects wJj[ Jn (-{me soft;en the

lines of the building and

ternal entrance on the north side. Most of the bring it still more into sympathy with its sur-
principal rooms are panelled in oak, the library roundings.

in walnut, the drawing-room and boudoir have The gamekeeper's cottage, of which an illustra-
white dados, and the walls above are hung with tion is given on the next page, was also designed
silk of a dull yellow colour. There is some good by Messrs. Walker, Carter & Walker. It was
modelled plaster work by
Mr. Bankart in the ceil-
ings of these two last
rooms. The hall is open
to the roof, which is of
oak, and a special feature
has been made of the
stone fire-place, which is
beautifully carved and
enriched. Panelling runs
round the hall up to the
first floor level, above
which the walls are
finished in the buff
Prudham stone through
to the roof. The three
large windows are filled
with stained glass, through
which the light filters, giv-
ing a delightful opalescent
green effect.

There are about twenty-
five bed and dressing
rooms on the upper floors,

11 ' grizedale hall, lancashire : north-west view of house showing

the principal ones being entrance and tower, walker, carter & walker, architects

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