Recent Designs in Domestic Architecture
STAPLEFIELD PLACE, SUSSEX:
VIEW FROM THE GARDEN.
CLAYTON AND BLACK,
ARCHITECTS
orms a part, suggestive 01
solid and enduring con-
struction. This house,
designed for Mr. Henry
Denny by Messrs. Clayton
and Black of Brighton, has
just been completed, but
its colouring and its
matured surroundings
might well be a century old.
The illustration given on
p. 312 of a studio recently
erected in Kensington may
be of interest to many of
our artist readers. It has
been built at the corner of
Lennox Gardens in an old-
fashioned paved court, and it is a fact of consider- wide. The upper part of the building consists of
able interest to know that this "Studio House" two bedrooms, kitchen, bathroom and lavatory,
is a type of building which, including freehold and roof garden above where a tent can be erected
land, can be erected at a cost of about ^1000. in the summer, and the space laid out in accordance
The architects, Messrs. Stanley-Barrett and Driver, with the needs or desires of the occupant. The
M.S.A., took the entire ground plan of their studio itself is a living studio and this explains the
building and made that the size of the studio, which reason why a deep and well-lighted ingle-nook has
now measures forty feet long and twenty-five feet been formed and a service lift put in to convey
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STAPLEFIELD PLACE, SUSSEX:
VIEW FROM THE GARDEN.
CLAYTON AND BLACK,
ARCHITECTS
orms a part, suggestive 01
solid and enduring con-
struction. This house,
designed for Mr. Henry
Denny by Messrs. Clayton
and Black of Brighton, has
just been completed, but
its colouring and its
matured surroundings
might well be a century old.
The illustration given on
p. 312 of a studio recently
erected in Kensington may
be of interest to many of
our artist readers. It has
been built at the corner of
Lennox Gardens in an old-
fashioned paved court, and it is a fact of consider- wide. The upper part of the building consists of
able interest to know that this "Studio House" two bedrooms, kitchen, bathroom and lavatory,
is a type of building which, including freehold and roof garden above where a tent can be erected
land, can be erected at a cost of about ^1000. in the summer, and the space laid out in accordance
The architects, Messrs. Stanley-Barrett and Driver, with the needs or desires of the occupant. The
M.S.A., took the entire ground plan of their studio itself is a living studio and this explains the
building and made that the size of the studio, which reason why a deep and well-lighted ingle-nook has
now measures forty feet long and twenty-five feet been formed and a service lift put in to convey
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