DOI Heft:
No. 235 (October 1912)
DOI Artikel:Recent designs in domestic architecture
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21158#0054
Recent Designs in Domestic Architecture
R. A. Briggs, F.R.I.B.A. (Briggs and Browning),
of London. The site offers views extending for
many miles to the south-east, and in order that the
residents should have the advantage of these views
the dining-room and the drawing-room were both
built with bay windows. Small light red bricks have
been used for facing the external walls below the first
floor, and also the chimneys, while the walls above
the ground floor are covered with rough-cast. For
the roofs rough tiles of a dark grev-red colour have
been used, and the stone for the dressings comes
from the Monk’s Park quarries. The interior
accommodation on the ground floor is shown on the
accompanying plan. The rooms on the first floor
comprise six bedrooms (including two for servants),
a dressing-room, a schoolroom, two bath-
rooms, and other offices. Part of the
hall is carried through to the first floor,
the window being continued all the way
up (as shown in the illustration on this
page), while facing the window is a
gallery reached from the first floor.
The woodwork throughout has been
painted white.
Sion Hill, Thirsk, Yorkshire, of which
we give an illustration in colour, is a
house at present in course of erection
for Mr. Percy Stancliffe on the site of an
older house erected about one hundred
years ago, that has been pulled down to
make way for it. The estate until recently belonged
to a branch of Lord Harewood’s family, and is about
four miles from Thirsk, in a richly wooded neigh-
bourhood through which winds the river Wiske.
The new house is planned so that the principal
rooms all get as much sunshine as possible, and
face the gardens and river, and several of the
windows command fine views of the Vale of York
and the Hambleton Hills. The house is being
built with cavity walls twenty inches thick, the
outer facing being of two-inch red hand-made
bricks, and the roofs are to be covered with thick
red hand-made and sand-faced tiles. The entrance
porch shown in the view is of Portland stone, which
is also used sparingly for the windows, sills, strings,
HOUSE AT KINGSWOOD, SURREY : ENTRANCE VIEW
32
R. A. BRIGGS, F.R.I.B.A., ARCHITECT
R. A. Briggs, F.R.I.B.A. (Briggs and Browning),
of London. The site offers views extending for
many miles to the south-east, and in order that the
residents should have the advantage of these views
the dining-room and the drawing-room were both
built with bay windows. Small light red bricks have
been used for facing the external walls below the first
floor, and also the chimneys, while the walls above
the ground floor are covered with rough-cast. For
the roofs rough tiles of a dark grev-red colour have
been used, and the stone for the dressings comes
from the Monk’s Park quarries. The interior
accommodation on the ground floor is shown on the
accompanying plan. The rooms on the first floor
comprise six bedrooms (including two for servants),
a dressing-room, a schoolroom, two bath-
rooms, and other offices. Part of the
hall is carried through to the first floor,
the window being continued all the way
up (as shown in the illustration on this
page), while facing the window is a
gallery reached from the first floor.
The woodwork throughout has been
painted white.
Sion Hill, Thirsk, Yorkshire, of which
we give an illustration in colour, is a
house at present in course of erection
for Mr. Percy Stancliffe on the site of an
older house erected about one hundred
years ago, that has been pulled down to
make way for it. The estate until recently belonged
to a branch of Lord Harewood’s family, and is about
four miles from Thirsk, in a richly wooded neigh-
bourhood through which winds the river Wiske.
The new house is planned so that the principal
rooms all get as much sunshine as possible, and
face the gardens and river, and several of the
windows command fine views of the Vale of York
and the Hambleton Hills. The house is being
built with cavity walls twenty inches thick, the
outer facing being of two-inch red hand-made
bricks, and the roofs are to be covered with thick
red hand-made and sand-faced tiles. The entrance
porch shown in the view is of Portland stone, which
is also used sparingly for the windows, sills, strings,
HOUSE AT KINGSWOOD, SURREY : ENTRANCE VIEW
32
R. A. BRIGGS, F.R.I.B.A., ARCHITECT