DOI Heft:
No. 343 (October 1921)
DOI Artikel:Domestic architecture and decoration, [3]
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21393#0171
DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURE AND
DECORATION. 0000
OUR first three illustrations are re-
productions of drawings exhibited
in the architectural section at the recent
Royal Academy Exhibition. 0 0
The one reproduced below shows a
small wing recently added to an old Sussex
house to provide extra accommodation for
servants. " Bingles " is a delightful ex-
ample of the local timber construction, a
portion of it dating probably from the
fifteenth century and the rest from the six-
teenth. While it was felt desirable to
treat the new wing as a frankly modern
addition, an endeavour was made to keep
the new work in character with the old,
and the materials used were selected as
conducive to that end. 00a
The house at Hartfield is of the bunga-
low type, but space has been found in the
roof for two large bedrooms and an extra
bathroom. There is also an open covered
sleeping-out place on the first floor. The
design of the house has been influenced
largely by the site, which is on a slope
looking south over Ashdown Forest, and
the elevations have been treated very
simply in keeping with eighteenth century
work in the locality. 000
Onslow Village is being built on the
western outskirts of Guildford, Surrey,
beside the Hog's Back road, which leads
to Farnham. It is set high up, with wide
views over rolling country, and the steep
undulations of the site have had a de-
termining influence on the design and
lay-out. Any strictly formal treatment
would be impossible here (even if it were
desirable), and the architects—Messrs.
Knapp-Fisher, Powell & Russell, of
Ebury Street, London—have rather aimed
at taking advantage of the contours to
obtain that charm of variety in the group-
ing of houses, which is such a distinctive
feature of English village scenery. The
first houses to be erected—those shown
in the drawing—were mostly rough-cast,
but very pleasant red-facing bricks are
now being made on the spot, and are being
used for most of the houses now in hand.
DECORATION. 0000
OUR first three illustrations are re-
productions of drawings exhibited
in the architectural section at the recent
Royal Academy Exhibition. 0 0
The one reproduced below shows a
small wing recently added to an old Sussex
house to provide extra accommodation for
servants. " Bingles " is a delightful ex-
ample of the local timber construction, a
portion of it dating probably from the
fifteenth century and the rest from the six-
teenth. While it was felt desirable to
treat the new wing as a frankly modern
addition, an endeavour was made to keep
the new work in character with the old,
and the materials used were selected as
conducive to that end. 00a
The house at Hartfield is of the bunga-
low type, but space has been found in the
roof for two large bedrooms and an extra
bathroom. There is also an open covered
sleeping-out place on the first floor. The
design of the house has been influenced
largely by the site, which is on a slope
looking south over Ashdown Forest, and
the elevations have been treated very
simply in keeping with eighteenth century
work in the locality. 000
Onslow Village is being built on the
western outskirts of Guildford, Surrey,
beside the Hog's Back road, which leads
to Farnham. It is set high up, with wide
views over rolling country, and the steep
undulations of the site have had a de-
termining influence on the design and
lay-out. Any strictly formal treatment
would be impossible here (even if it were
desirable), and the architects—Messrs.
Knapp-Fisher, Powell & Russell, of
Ebury Street, London—have rather aimed
at taking advantage of the contours to
obtain that charm of variety in the group-
ing of houses, which is such a distinctive
feature of English village scenery. The
first houses to be erected—those shown
in the drawing—were mostly rough-cast,
but very pleasant red-facing bricks are
now being made on the spot, and are being
used for most of the houses now in hand.