DOI Heft:
No. 339 (June 1921)
DOI Artikel:Domestic architecture and decoration, [2]
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21392#0246
DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURE AND drawing room, sitting room and bedrooms
DECORATION. 0 0 0 0 are finished in Duresco, mostly of a white
tone ; and the hall is treated a grey brown.
WEST HOUSE, St. Andrews, illus- A feature of the design for the latter apart-
trated below, was designed by ment is that it has been carried right up from
Messrs. Mills & Shepherd, of Dundee, ground floor through to the ceiling of the
In regard to the external treatment, the bedroom floor, in order to give as much wall
walls are of local sandstone, with windows space as possible for the wall ornaments,
having wood casements, and roofs set with in the form of heads of stags, as well as
hand-made tiles, giving to the structure a other tropical animals ; the late owner
pleasing appearance, which is a charac- Colonel Barry, having been resident in India
teristic of much of this firm's domestic for many years, where he was a big game
architecture. Internally, the floors of the hunter, and a great sportsman in general,
hall and dining room are laid in oak, with The two doorways, of which we give illus-
stairs and doors leading off the entrance trations on the opposite page, were designed
hall done in pitch pine, fumed. For the by a young Danish architect, Mr. Helweg
dining-room a panelling scheme has been Moller, who has been very successful in
carried out in pitch pine wood up to height dealing with this important feature in the
of door architrave. The walls of the external aspect of the dwelling house. 0
230
" WEST HOUSE, ST. ANDREW'S." MILLS AND
SHEPHERD, FF.R.I.B.A., ARCHITECTS
DECORATION. 0 0 0 0 are finished in Duresco, mostly of a white
tone ; and the hall is treated a grey brown.
WEST HOUSE, St. Andrews, illus- A feature of the design for the latter apart-
trated below, was designed by ment is that it has been carried right up from
Messrs. Mills & Shepherd, of Dundee, ground floor through to the ceiling of the
In regard to the external treatment, the bedroom floor, in order to give as much wall
walls are of local sandstone, with windows space as possible for the wall ornaments,
having wood casements, and roofs set with in the form of heads of stags, as well as
hand-made tiles, giving to the structure a other tropical animals ; the late owner
pleasing appearance, which is a charac- Colonel Barry, having been resident in India
teristic of much of this firm's domestic for many years, where he was a big game
architecture. Internally, the floors of the hunter, and a great sportsman in general,
hall and dining room are laid in oak, with The two doorways, of which we give illus-
stairs and doors leading off the entrance trations on the opposite page, were designed
hall done in pitch pine, fumed. For the by a young Danish architect, Mr. Helweg
dining-room a panelling scheme has been Moller, who has been very successful in
carried out in pitch pine wood up to height dealing with this important feature in the
of door architrave. The walls of the external aspect of the dwelling house. 0
230
" WEST HOUSE, ST. ANDREW'S." MILLS AND
SHEPHERD, FF.R.I.B.A., ARCHITECTS