DOI Heft:
No. 283 (October 1916)
DOI Artikel:Recent designs in domestic architecture
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.24575#0045
Recent Designs in Domestic Architecture
HOWBURY, ST. ANDREWS, SCOTLAND MILLS AND SHEPHERD, FF.R.I.B.A., ARCHITECTS
wood panelling up to ceiling height, the detail of different aspects of the same apartment, exhibited
the smoking-room showing an excellent rendering at Edinburgh this year by Mr. William Hunter
of architectural lines, with a neat rectangular-panel McNab, F.R.I.B. A., of Glasgow. It forms a new
above the fireplace. The furniture is in quiet wing added to an existing house, including a new
taste, in congruity with the character of the interior. entrance porch, cloak-room and lavatory. The
In close proximity to the above-named exhibit, house was built on a quickly sloping site, advantage
Messrs. Mills & Shepherd, FF.R.I.B.A., of Dundee, being taken of the rapid fall to obtain a motor
were represented by a number of photographs of house below, the construction of the latter
various works. The illustration reproduced here accommodation being the primary reason for the
is a view of the exterior of Howbury, St. Andrews, erection of the wing. The new entrance hall was
looking towards the entrance angle, and it gives formerly the dining-room, and it now gives access
a very good idea of the attractive character of the to the new dining-room. For the walls a neat,
design. It is of a characteristic English type, the square panelling treatment of Austrian oak
external walls being brick, finished rough-cast. (contracted for before the war) has been carried
The entrance porch is panelled on walls and out and reaches to the full height, the wood
ceiling in pitch pine, fumed with ammonia ; and being left in its natural state without stain or
the floors of the principal public rooms, such as polish of any kind, while above it there is a plain
the hall, dining- and drawing-rooms, are laid with plastered frieze. Occupying a well-balanced
the same wood, also fumed with dark ammonia. position in the room is a simply constructed
The rooms generally have a picture moulding Tudor fireplace of fine white selected Auchenheath
set twenty inches below the ceilings, these being stone, with carved mantel supports, the work of
finished white in harmony with the frieze and Mr. James Young, of Glasgow. A plain kerb
cornice treatment. Below the frieze the walls completes the design. The floor is of Canadian
have been covered with either a white or grey or oak, polished over the entire area. A feature of
tinted cartridge paper. the room is the ornamental plaster ceiling, with
The view of a dining-room reproduced on page 40 deep cross and side beams, executed by Mr.
is one of a series of three photographs showing George P. Bankart of London.
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HOWBURY, ST. ANDREWS, SCOTLAND MILLS AND SHEPHERD, FF.R.I.B.A., ARCHITECTS
wood panelling up to ceiling height, the detail of different aspects of the same apartment, exhibited
the smoking-room showing an excellent rendering at Edinburgh this year by Mr. William Hunter
of architectural lines, with a neat rectangular-panel McNab, F.R.I.B. A., of Glasgow. It forms a new
above the fireplace. The furniture is in quiet wing added to an existing house, including a new
taste, in congruity with the character of the interior. entrance porch, cloak-room and lavatory. The
In close proximity to the above-named exhibit, house was built on a quickly sloping site, advantage
Messrs. Mills & Shepherd, FF.R.I.B.A., of Dundee, being taken of the rapid fall to obtain a motor
were represented by a number of photographs of house below, the construction of the latter
various works. The illustration reproduced here accommodation being the primary reason for the
is a view of the exterior of Howbury, St. Andrews, erection of the wing. The new entrance hall was
looking towards the entrance angle, and it gives formerly the dining-room, and it now gives access
a very good idea of the attractive character of the to the new dining-room. For the walls a neat,
design. It is of a characteristic English type, the square panelling treatment of Austrian oak
external walls being brick, finished rough-cast. (contracted for before the war) has been carried
The entrance porch is panelled on walls and out and reaches to the full height, the wood
ceiling in pitch pine, fumed with ammonia ; and being left in its natural state without stain or
the floors of the principal public rooms, such as polish of any kind, while above it there is a plain
the hall, dining- and drawing-rooms, are laid with plastered frieze. Occupying a well-balanced
the same wood, also fumed with dark ammonia. position in the room is a simply constructed
The rooms generally have a picture moulding Tudor fireplace of fine white selected Auchenheath
set twenty inches below the ceilings, these being stone, with carved mantel supports, the work of
finished white in harmony with the frieze and Mr. James Young, of Glasgow. A plain kerb
cornice treatment. Below the frieze the walls completes the design. The floor is of Canadian
have been covered with either a white or grey or oak, polished over the entire area. A feature of
tinted cartridge paper. the room is the ornamental plaster ceiling, with
The view of a dining-room reproduced on page 40 deep cross and side beams, executed by Mr.
is one of a series of three photographs showing George P. Bankart of London.
39