DOI Heft:
Nr. 220 (July 1911)
DOI Artikel:Recent designs in domestic architecture
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.20973#0163
Recent Designs in Domestic Architecture
between Gloucester and Bristol. Here, from the
range of hills that rise steeply out of the Severn
Valley, extensive and delightful views are obtained
looking over the Forest of Dean away to the Black
Mountains, with the broad gleaming band of the
river making a silver track through the valley. No
more delightful spot can be found anywhere than
the southern slopes of these hills, and it is here
that the house we illustrate below is situate.
The manner of building with the local stone and
covering the roofs with stone slates has justly made
this district famous for the beauty of its local
architecture. Drakestone has been built in this
ancient manner. The walls are of stone of a
beautiful brown and with its grey stone roof already
becomes part of the landscape. The characteristics
of this house are simplicity of plan and elevation—
the whole depending for effect on the beauty and
right use of material and simple proportions. The
house and stables are grouped round a forecourt,
and all the rooms are planned so as to command
sunny aspects and far-reaching views. The ground
slopes away from the house to the south and here
terracing and lawns at varying levels have been
formed and the garden already gives much promise
for the future. In planning the interior the architect,
Mr. Oswald P. Milne of London, has given effect to
the same considerations of simplicity and sound con-
struction as have been operative in the design of the
exterior. The chief rooms on the ground floor have, as
shown by the inset plan, a south-western aspect, while
the kitchen and its adjuncts are conveniently placed
at the north-eastern end near the dining-room.
We give opposite a view of another house
in the Cotswolds now being erected from the
designs of Mr. E. Guy Dawber of London. It
occupies the site of an older house which has been
demolished, and the existing gardens, &c, are also
being remodelled, and new terraces, forecourt and
entrance drives made. As the ground falls towards
the east, the offices and servants'hall and basement
department are on a lower level. The materials
used in the construction of the house are stone
(part of it saved from the old building) with
stone ashlar dressings to the windows, pilasters,
cornices, chimneys, &c, and with plain spaces
DRAKESTONE, STINCHCOMBE, GLOUCESTERSHIRE
OSWALD P. MILNE, ARCHITECT
between Gloucester and Bristol. Here, from the
range of hills that rise steeply out of the Severn
Valley, extensive and delightful views are obtained
looking over the Forest of Dean away to the Black
Mountains, with the broad gleaming band of the
river making a silver track through the valley. No
more delightful spot can be found anywhere than
the southern slopes of these hills, and it is here
that the house we illustrate below is situate.
The manner of building with the local stone and
covering the roofs with stone slates has justly made
this district famous for the beauty of its local
architecture. Drakestone has been built in this
ancient manner. The walls are of stone of a
beautiful brown and with its grey stone roof already
becomes part of the landscape. The characteristics
of this house are simplicity of plan and elevation—
the whole depending for effect on the beauty and
right use of material and simple proportions. The
house and stables are grouped round a forecourt,
and all the rooms are planned so as to command
sunny aspects and far-reaching views. The ground
slopes away from the house to the south and here
terracing and lawns at varying levels have been
formed and the garden already gives much promise
for the future. In planning the interior the architect,
Mr. Oswald P. Milne of London, has given effect to
the same considerations of simplicity and sound con-
struction as have been operative in the design of the
exterior. The chief rooms on the ground floor have, as
shown by the inset plan, a south-western aspect, while
the kitchen and its adjuncts are conveniently placed
at the north-eastern end near the dining-room.
We give opposite a view of another house
in the Cotswolds now being erected from the
designs of Mr. E. Guy Dawber of London. It
occupies the site of an older house which has been
demolished, and the existing gardens, &c, are also
being remodelled, and new terraces, forecourt and
entrance drives made. As the ground falls towards
the east, the offices and servants'hall and basement
department are on a lower level. The materials
used in the construction of the house are stone
(part of it saved from the old building) with
stone ashlar dressings to the windows, pilasters,
cornices, chimneys, &c, and with plain spaces
DRAKESTONE, STINCHCOMBE, GLOUCESTERSHIRE
OSWALD P. MILNE, ARCHITECT