DOI Heft:
No. 225 (December 1911)
DOI Artikel:Recent designs in domestic architecture
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21155#0240
Recent Designs i7t Domestic Architecture
gayton grange, cheshire john' clarke, f.r.i.b.a., architect
is of oak, is a copy of one that was taken out of concrete fire-proof with wood blocks on top. On
an old house in Chester. All the sashes are of the top story are two large bedrooms and three box-
steel, and where there are not opening sashes or store-rooms. The hot-water service is run in
the glass is glazed direct into the terra-cotta copper pipes, tinned inside and out. The house
work; there is not a wood window in the house, is heated throughout by a fresh warm-air apparatus,
The first-floor accommodation comprises a billiard- and it is estimated that the air of the entire house
room, five bedrooms, bathrooms, lavatory, store, is changed about three times an hour ; fires are
and photographic room. The principal bedroom only used for their cheerful appearance,
communicates with a dressing-room and through
that with a bathroom. The bathrooms and lavatories
have tiled walls, and all fittings are of white The dry-points by Mr. Lee Hankey which were
enamelled earthenware. Most of the bedrooms reproduced in our October issue form part of a
have fitted wash-basins with hot and cold water series published by the Walker Art Gallery, nS
laid on. The floors over the kitchen department are New Bond Street, to whom the copyright belongs.
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gayton grange, cheshire john' clarke, f.r.i.b.a., architect
is of oak, is a copy of one that was taken out of concrete fire-proof with wood blocks on top. On
an old house in Chester. All the sashes are of the top story are two large bedrooms and three box-
steel, and where there are not opening sashes or store-rooms. The hot-water service is run in
the glass is glazed direct into the terra-cotta copper pipes, tinned inside and out. The house
work; there is not a wood window in the house, is heated throughout by a fresh warm-air apparatus,
The first-floor accommodation comprises a billiard- and it is estimated that the air of the entire house
room, five bedrooms, bathrooms, lavatory, store, is changed about three times an hour ; fires are
and photographic room. The principal bedroom only used for their cheerful appearance,
communicates with a dressing-room and through
that with a bathroom. The bathrooms and lavatories
have tiled walls, and all fittings are of white The dry-points by Mr. Lee Hankey which were
enamelled earthenware. Most of the bedrooms reproduced in our October issue form part of a
have fitted wash-basins with hot and cold water series published by the Walker Art Gallery, nS
laid on. The floors over the kitchen department are New Bond Street, to whom the copyright belongs.
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