Studio: international art (57.1913)

Recent Designs in Domestic Architecture

red bricks and tiles, is placed on a raised hearth.
A screen forms one side of the ingle-nook, behind
which a few steps lead to the kitchen quarters;
a door opposite opens on to the dining-room—
a quaintly shaped room fitting into one corner of
the site, which is triangular. The hall communi-
cates by a few stairs with the sitting-room—a
large room (32 feet by 15 feet), formed in the slope
of the roof, the actual roof timbers being exposed.
From this a door opens on to a large balcony
with a red quarried floor and low parapet wall with
flat quarried top, and forms a pleasant place for
serving tea in summer.

Messrs. Stanley-Barrett
and Driver, of Gray’s Inn,
the architects of the house,
have paid special attention
to economy of labour in
the interior arrangements.

All woodwork and angles
are rounded, and there are
no dusty mouldings. The
leaded lights have no
saddle-bars to cut the

servants’ hands, but have steel cores inside the
leads. The leads are rounded in sections so
that the panes can be cleaned as easily as a plain
sheet of glass. Where the beams do not show,
the ceilings, instead of having dusty moulded cor-
nices, are simply rounded at the angle between
the wall and ceiling. The floors throughout are
polished. The floor of the kitchen is a novelty, the
centre being formed in wood blocks for comfort
when sitting or standing round the table, and the
surround is paved in polished red quarries. The
walls are enamelled white with a washable enamel,

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