DOI Heft:
No. 225 (December 1911)
DOI Artikel:Recent designs in domestic architecture
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21155#0239
Recent Designs in Domestic Architecture
ceiling joists are allowed to protrude into the room, architect, for his own residence, and shows his
the intervening spaces being filled with rough predilections in house-building. The site is on
canvas painted white. The facing brickwork is the side of the hill overlooking the wide estuary of
formed of 2j-inch brindled bricks, and the the River Dee, and about half a mile from the
remainder of the elevations are finished with rough- shore, the view embracing the Flintshire hills and
cast distempered dead white, the tiles being dark extending north-westerly right out to sea. It con-
red, hand-made. The cost of this house was tains 4J acres, three acres being garden. The
under .£450, including the front fencing. The exterior of the house, which faces a little west of
entrance is paved with old flagstones. south, is of red Ruabon bricks, with tile roofing to
" Gayton Grange," Cheshire, is a house erected match, but of a more subdued colour; the heads,
by Mr. John Clarke, F.R.I.B.A., a Liverpool sills, mullions, &c, are all of Ruabon terra-cotta.
The outside walls are
very thick, and the in-
ternal walls dividing the
rooms are 9-inch. The
hall and stairway, corri-
dors, &c, are floored in
oak. The hall and
corridor ceilings have the
ceiling joists showing
about 3 inches below the
plaster-work. The doors,
their castings and moulds
are oak; the handles
and plates are coinage
metal. The stair, which
HOUSE AT WIDNEY MANOR, NEAR BIRMINGHAM
BURKETT J. EMERY, ARCHITECT
217
ceiling joists are allowed to protrude into the room, architect, for his own residence, and shows his
the intervening spaces being filled with rough predilections in house-building. The site is on
canvas painted white. The facing brickwork is the side of the hill overlooking the wide estuary of
formed of 2j-inch brindled bricks, and the the River Dee, and about half a mile from the
remainder of the elevations are finished with rough- shore, the view embracing the Flintshire hills and
cast distempered dead white, the tiles being dark extending north-westerly right out to sea. It con-
red, hand-made. The cost of this house was tains 4J acres, three acres being garden. The
under .£450, including the front fencing. The exterior of the house, which faces a little west of
entrance is paved with old flagstones. south, is of red Ruabon bricks, with tile roofing to
" Gayton Grange," Cheshire, is a house erected match, but of a more subdued colour; the heads,
by Mr. John Clarke, F.R.I.B.A., a Liverpool sills, mullions, &c, are all of Ruabon terra-cotta.
The outside walls are
very thick, and the in-
ternal walls dividing the
rooms are 9-inch. The
hall and stairway, corri-
dors, &c, are floored in
oak. The hall and
corridor ceilings have the
ceiling joists showing
about 3 inches below the
plaster-work. The doors,
their castings and moulds
are oak; the handles
and plates are coinage
metal. The stair, which
HOUSE AT WIDNEY MANOR, NEAR BIRMINGHAM
BURKETT J. EMERY, ARCHITECT
217