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Recent Designs in Domestic Architecture


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MORDEN HOUSE, BLACKHEATH : GROUND PLAN

JOHN BELCHER, R.A., AND J. J. JOASS, ARCHITECTS

which is kept clean by simply sponging down.
The hot-water supply is arranged on a similar system
to the Thermos flask : by means of pulling a lever
at night the hot water is bottled up and a hot bath
can be obtained before the kitchen fire is lighted.

The house at Bickley, in Kent, which is shown in
our next illustration (p. 124) has been erected from
the designs of Mr. C. H. B. Quennell, F.R.I.B.A., of
Westminster, and carries on the eighteenth-century
traditions of domestic archi-
tecture, simplicity being the
keynote of the entire struc-
ture, which in its reposeful
character presents a marked
contrast to the ostentatious
kind of building so often
met with in the outer Metro-
politan districts at present
in course of development.

In planning the house on
its present site a special
point was made of the pre-
servation of the fine old
oak-tree shown in the illus-
tration, this adding con-
siderably to the interest of
the exterior. Red hand-
made bricks of various tints

have been used for the walls, and hand-made tiles
for the roofs.

Morden House at Blackheath in Kent, of which
we give an illustration in colour and a general
ground plan, occupies a site adjoining the grounds
of Morden College in a district which, in spite of its
proximity to London, still retains much of that
rural aspect which has always made it a favourite
residential locality. As the illustration shows, the

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PLAN OF HOUSE AT HARPENDEN J. E. DIXON-SPAIN, ARCHITECT

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