DOI issue:
Nr. 220 (July 1911)
DOI article:Recent designs in domestic architecture
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.20973#0164
Recent Designs in Domestic Architecture
eyford park, gloucestershire e. guy dawber, architect
to the walls, filled in with stucco ot a slightly and whitewashed in the local manner. For the
different colour, finished after the manner of the window-frames and all external woodwork oak has
French chateaux of the eighteenth century. The been employed, and the roofs are covered with
roof is to be covered with stone slates of local origin, hand-made tiles.
graduated in size and thickness from eaves to ridge, -
and the whole house is being treated in a simple We are requested by Mr. S. H. le Fleming ot
and quiet manner. The contractors are Messrs. Rydal Hall, Westmoreland, to state that the garden
Walker and Slater of Derby. and terrace illustrated in the Spring Number of
Webbington House, of which a perspective view The Studio (Plates CIX. and CX.) were entirely
is given on p. 144, has been built from the designs designed by himself and not by Mr. Thomas H.
of Mr. E. J. May, F.R.I.B.A., at the extreme Mawson as stated,
western end of the Mendip
Hills in Somersetshire, the
site being a very sloping
one, commanding extensive
views, as the illustration
shows. The disposition of
the various apartments and
offices on the ground floor
is shown by the plan repro-
duced, the main rooms being
on the south-west side of
the building and the offices
on the north-east side, which
is the aspect represented in
the perspective. Stone has
been used for the walls, the 1 1 1 1
u pper parts being plastered plan of eyford park, Gloucestershire
143
eyford park, gloucestershire e. guy dawber, architect
to the walls, filled in with stucco ot a slightly and whitewashed in the local manner. For the
different colour, finished after the manner of the window-frames and all external woodwork oak has
French chateaux of the eighteenth century. The been employed, and the roofs are covered with
roof is to be covered with stone slates of local origin, hand-made tiles.
graduated in size and thickness from eaves to ridge, -
and the whole house is being treated in a simple We are requested by Mr. S. H. le Fleming ot
and quiet manner. The contractors are Messrs. Rydal Hall, Westmoreland, to state that the garden
Walker and Slater of Derby. and terrace illustrated in the Spring Number of
Webbington House, of which a perspective view The Studio (Plates CIX. and CX.) were entirely
is given on p. 144, has been built from the designs designed by himself and not by Mr. Thomas H.
of Mr. E. J. May, F.R.I.B.A., at the extreme Mawson as stated,
western end of the Mendip
Hills in Somersetshire, the
site being a very sloping
one, commanding extensive
views, as the illustration
shows. The disposition of
the various apartments and
offices on the ground floor
is shown by the plan repro-
duced, the main rooms being
on the south-west side of
the building and the offices
on the north-east side, which
is the aspect represented in
the perspective. Stone has
been used for the walls, the 1 1 1 1
u pper parts being plastered plan of eyford park, Gloucestershire
143