DOI Heft:
No. 232 (July 1912)
DOI Artikel:Recent designs ind domestic architecture
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21157#0156
Recent Designs in Domestic Architecture
thick and roughly cut Precelli slates, which are of a
greenish-grey colour. A feature has been made of
the deep verandah and garden-room, for use as an
additional room in fine weather, and glass screens
that can be easily removed are arranged in the
openings.
The Greenway, at Shurdington, a few miles south-
west of Cheltenham, is a pleasant sixteenth-century
Cotswold house mentioned in the county history.
Standing quite close to it is a smaller building of
the previous century. The two have now been
incorporated; the older part contains the kitchen
and offices and a small private chapel. Some time
in the last century the house, which is now the
property of the Rev. I. S. Sinclair, the Archdeacon
of Cirencester, was rather unfortunately remodelled;
the south-east front was obscured by greenhouses,
potting sheds, and all sorts of backyards. As the
plans and sketch on p. 136 show, all this has now
been re-schemed ; a good deal of new work has been
added, and the garden has been arranged to suit
the slope of the land and open out a fine view to
the south-east. Mr. Ernest Newton, A.R.A., was
the architect for the alterations.
The particular form of
the house in Poland by
Mr. Baillie Scott (p. 137)
is the outcome of the local
conditions of climate.
During six months of the
year the country surround-
ing the site is covered with
snow; and it was conse-
quently thought desirable
to make the house itself,
as far as possible, fulfil the
functions of both house
and garden during the
winter,, so that imprison-
ment within its walls
should not be irksome.
The rooms are therefore
grouped round a central
court, which, roofed by a
dome, forms a winter
garden to be enjoyed when
the gardens surrounding
the house are inaccessible.
The main living-room, or
“hall,” is on the west side
of this central “garden,”
and has a stage for music
at one end, and the
dining-room at the other;
J34
whilst beyond the stage, in the south-west corner of
the building, is the library. Here the fall of the
ground has suggested a scheme by which the main
floor of the library is kept considerably lower than
the other rooms, the approach from them being at
the level of an overhanging gallery which has a stair
descending to the room itself. Although so far
below the hall floor, the library is still above the
quickly sloping ground to the south. The central
portion of the south front is occupied by the
garden room, with arches opening on to a terrace
overlooking a wooded hillside which descends to a
lake. The remainder of the ground plan is taken
up by a suite of bedrooms and the kitchen
premises. On the upper floor an arcaded gallery
ELEVATIONS AND PLAN
OF A COUNTRY HOUSE NEAR GUILDFORD. IN an.tv
E. F. JOHNSTON, ARCHITECT
thick and roughly cut Precelli slates, which are of a
greenish-grey colour. A feature has been made of
the deep verandah and garden-room, for use as an
additional room in fine weather, and glass screens
that can be easily removed are arranged in the
openings.
The Greenway, at Shurdington, a few miles south-
west of Cheltenham, is a pleasant sixteenth-century
Cotswold house mentioned in the county history.
Standing quite close to it is a smaller building of
the previous century. The two have now been
incorporated; the older part contains the kitchen
and offices and a small private chapel. Some time
in the last century the house, which is now the
property of the Rev. I. S. Sinclair, the Archdeacon
of Cirencester, was rather unfortunately remodelled;
the south-east front was obscured by greenhouses,
potting sheds, and all sorts of backyards. As the
plans and sketch on p. 136 show, all this has now
been re-schemed ; a good deal of new work has been
added, and the garden has been arranged to suit
the slope of the land and open out a fine view to
the south-east. Mr. Ernest Newton, A.R.A., was
the architect for the alterations.
The particular form of
the house in Poland by
Mr. Baillie Scott (p. 137)
is the outcome of the local
conditions of climate.
During six months of the
year the country surround-
ing the site is covered with
snow; and it was conse-
quently thought desirable
to make the house itself,
as far as possible, fulfil the
functions of both house
and garden during the
winter,, so that imprison-
ment within its walls
should not be irksome.
The rooms are therefore
grouped round a central
court, which, roofed by a
dome, forms a winter
garden to be enjoyed when
the gardens surrounding
the house are inaccessible.
The main living-room, or
“hall,” is on the west side
of this central “garden,”
and has a stage for music
at one end, and the
dining-room at the other;
J34
whilst beyond the stage, in the south-west corner of
the building, is the library. Here the fall of the
ground has suggested a scheme by which the main
floor of the library is kept considerably lower than
the other rooms, the approach from them being at
the level of an overhanging gallery which has a stair
descending to the room itself. Although so far
below the hall floor, the library is still above the
quickly sloping ground to the south. The central
portion of the south front is occupied by the
garden room, with arches opening on to a terrace
overlooking a wooded hillside which descends to a
lake. The remainder of the ground plan is taken
up by a suite of bedrooms and the kitchen
premises. On the upper floor an arcaded gallery
ELEVATIONS AND PLAN
OF A COUNTRY HOUSE NEAR GUILDFORD. IN an.tv
E. F. JOHNSTON, ARCHITECT