DOI Heft:
No. 255 (July 1914)
DOI Artikel:Recent designs in domestic architecture
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21210#0136
Recent Designs in Domestic Architecture
Trew, architect of Gloucester, and now in course of have been specially designed and carried out locally,
erection on the Mundip Hills near Cheddar in the wrought ironwork having been done by the local
Somerset. Local conglomerate stone is being used smith. Six rooms have been provided on the first
for the walling, and the loggia will be paved with floor. The garden has been carried out in the
similar material. The joinery throughout is to be same spirit as the house, the paths being laid with
finished white, the windows glazed with lead glazing York stones and bricks and kept somewhat formal
in iron casements. The roof will be covered with round the house. A picturesque effect has been
pan tiles. The cost of construction, including obtained by introducing a cobble-paved courtyard,
drainage and connection to the water supply of the local stone being used for the purpose. The petrol
village, will work out about ^650. The plan is a
comparatively simple one and provides for a parlour
of seventeen feet by twelve feet three inches, a
living room of slightly smaller dimensions, and a
kitchen with the usual offices appropriate to a house
of this character on the ground floor, and three
bedrooms on the floor above, of which two corre-
spond in dimensions to the two rooms below with a
difference of a few inches in one case.
" Piper's Croft," of which we give a perspective
view and plan, has been built for Mr. Stewart-
Liberty from the designs of Messrs. Kemp and
How of Kloomsbury and occupies a site about six
hundred feet up on the Chiltern Hills with a slope
to the south. It is built of local bricks from
various kilns and they have been burnt in such a
way as to obtain a mixture of tints. Parts of the
building have been carried out in solid
oak half-timber work to give the ap-
pearance of growth, and the owner
was fortunate in having some nice old
hand-made tiles which were utilized
to advantage. The main feature in -1
the internal portion of the house is
the hall, which is designed as the
principal living-room, the
dining-room being very small -
and used simply as a recess -
for meals, and the parlour as
a private retiring-room for
the lady of the house. The
" den" is fitted out as a
writing-room. The hall has
an open timbered roof with l<'1"=J
side corridors on the first
floor fitted with leaded lights
through which a view is ob- _
tained of the space below.
The fireplaces in this house
have been carried out in
local stone, and every en-
deavour has been made as
far as possible to use local
material only throughout the oround plxn 0i .. mbr.s crokt," ,,,,, ,.ee, gkkat missem.en, bucks.
construction. All the fittings w. j. kemp and w. m. how, ff.r.i.b.a., architects
116
Trew, architect of Gloucester, and now in course of have been specially designed and carried out locally,
erection on the Mundip Hills near Cheddar in the wrought ironwork having been done by the local
Somerset. Local conglomerate stone is being used smith. Six rooms have been provided on the first
for the walling, and the loggia will be paved with floor. The garden has been carried out in the
similar material. The joinery throughout is to be same spirit as the house, the paths being laid with
finished white, the windows glazed with lead glazing York stones and bricks and kept somewhat formal
in iron casements. The roof will be covered with round the house. A picturesque effect has been
pan tiles. The cost of construction, including obtained by introducing a cobble-paved courtyard,
drainage and connection to the water supply of the local stone being used for the purpose. The petrol
village, will work out about ^650. The plan is a
comparatively simple one and provides for a parlour
of seventeen feet by twelve feet three inches, a
living room of slightly smaller dimensions, and a
kitchen with the usual offices appropriate to a house
of this character on the ground floor, and three
bedrooms on the floor above, of which two corre-
spond in dimensions to the two rooms below with a
difference of a few inches in one case.
" Piper's Croft," of which we give a perspective
view and plan, has been built for Mr. Stewart-
Liberty from the designs of Messrs. Kemp and
How of Kloomsbury and occupies a site about six
hundred feet up on the Chiltern Hills with a slope
to the south. It is built of local bricks from
various kilns and they have been burnt in such a
way as to obtain a mixture of tints. Parts of the
building have been carried out in solid
oak half-timber work to give the ap-
pearance of growth, and the owner
was fortunate in having some nice old
hand-made tiles which were utilized
to advantage. The main feature in -1
the internal portion of the house is
the hall, which is designed as the
principal living-room, the
dining-room being very small -
and used simply as a recess -
for meals, and the parlour as
a private retiring-room for
the lady of the house. The
" den" is fitted out as a
writing-room. The hall has
an open timbered roof with l<'1"=J
side corridors on the first
floor fitted with leaded lights
through which a view is ob- _
tained of the space below.
The fireplaces in this house
have been carried out in
local stone, and every en-
deavour has been made as
far as possible to use local
material only throughout the oround plxn 0i .. mbr.s crokt," ,,,,, ,.ee, gkkat missem.en, bucks.
construction. All the fittings w. j. kemp and w. m. how, ff.r.i.b.a., architects
116