DOI Heft:
No. 259 (October 1914)
DOI Artikel:Recent designs in domestic architecture
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21211#0050
Recent Designs in Domestic Architecture
has been threatened with the relentless advance of spring the gables, some of which are framed in
the speculative builder and the insincerities and oak, pegged together, and the spaces between the
conventionalities of villadom. So those who have timbers filled with brickwork arranged herring-bone
the aesthetic welfare of this fair district most at fashion. In this a debt to local tradition is owned,
heart are intent on preserving its natural amenities, as also in the diaper brickwork, and the inspiration
and at the same time are endeavouring to bring for the brick string-courses.
into being an architecture in harmony with the The same architects are also responsible for the
natural environment, hoping to advance the truth design and erection of the pair of cottages at Leek
that the art of building has a higher mission to Wootton (below). Here the problem was to erect
serve than that of ministering only to material cottages of reasonable appearance and ample
needs. The house illustrated has been planned accommodation for an economical outlay. The
to provide simply and conveniently the required number of rooms required in each cottage, as re-
accommodation, consisting of an entrance hall of vealed by the plan, will be seen to amount to a
comfortable size that gives access to the living and large living-room, comfortable parlour, wash-house,
dining rooms, with the usual offices facing towards larder, coals, covered yard, with three bedrooms
the north and east. The joists and beams of the over. The cost of the pair was to come within
hall are exposed to view, and the walls are .£500, and this was accomplished. Here again
panelled; folding-doors divide the hall from the local materials were used, bricks from a yard two
living-room, and may, on occasion, be opened miles away and stone quarried and worked within
back to combine the hall and living-room in one. sight of the building.
At the south-east corner of the building is a loggia The house at Liphook is a typical example
which can be entered from the dining-room or of the work of Messrs. Unsworth and Triggs of
living-room. On the upper floor are five bedrooms, Petersfield. It occupies the site of a group of
a sleeping balcony over the loggia, a bathroom, and derelict cottages on the high road to Portsmouth,
other conveniences. The walls are built of bricks These cottages were demolished and the stone
of good and varied colour, obtained near the site, masonry and tiles re-used in the construction of
with half-inch mortar joints. The main roof runs the new house. A stone-flagged walk flanked by
from end to end of the building, and from it herbaceous borders leads to the open porch on the
• '-** *
leHaguai leak Woottc
,,"*J..... ... 1 t-t.
PAIR OF COTTAGES AT I,KICK WOOTTON, WARWICK, FOR SIR FRANCIS WALLER, HART.
SYDNEY R. JONES AND HOLLAND W, HOHBISS, ARCHITECTS
45
has been threatened with the relentless advance of spring the gables, some of which are framed in
the speculative builder and the insincerities and oak, pegged together, and the spaces between the
conventionalities of villadom. So those who have timbers filled with brickwork arranged herring-bone
the aesthetic welfare of this fair district most at fashion. In this a debt to local tradition is owned,
heart are intent on preserving its natural amenities, as also in the diaper brickwork, and the inspiration
and at the same time are endeavouring to bring for the brick string-courses.
into being an architecture in harmony with the The same architects are also responsible for the
natural environment, hoping to advance the truth design and erection of the pair of cottages at Leek
that the art of building has a higher mission to Wootton (below). Here the problem was to erect
serve than that of ministering only to material cottages of reasonable appearance and ample
needs. The house illustrated has been planned accommodation for an economical outlay. The
to provide simply and conveniently the required number of rooms required in each cottage, as re-
accommodation, consisting of an entrance hall of vealed by the plan, will be seen to amount to a
comfortable size that gives access to the living and large living-room, comfortable parlour, wash-house,
dining rooms, with the usual offices facing towards larder, coals, covered yard, with three bedrooms
the north and east. The joists and beams of the over. The cost of the pair was to come within
hall are exposed to view, and the walls are .£500, and this was accomplished. Here again
panelled; folding-doors divide the hall from the local materials were used, bricks from a yard two
living-room, and may, on occasion, be opened miles away and stone quarried and worked within
back to combine the hall and living-room in one. sight of the building.
At the south-east corner of the building is a loggia The house at Liphook is a typical example
which can be entered from the dining-room or of the work of Messrs. Unsworth and Triggs of
living-room. On the upper floor are five bedrooms, Petersfield. It occupies the site of a group of
a sleeping balcony over the loggia, a bathroom, and derelict cottages on the high road to Portsmouth,
other conveniences. The walls are built of bricks These cottages were demolished and the stone
of good and varied colour, obtained near the site, masonry and tiles re-used in the construction of
with half-inch mortar joints. The main roof runs the new house. A stone-flagged walk flanked by
from end to end of the building, and from it herbaceous borders leads to the open porch on the
• '-** *
leHaguai leak Woottc
,,"*J..... ... 1 t-t.
PAIR OF COTTAGES AT I,KICK WOOTTON, WARWICK, FOR SIR FRANCIS WALLER, HART.
SYDNEY R. JONES AND HOLLAND W, HOHBISS, ARCHITECTS
45