DOI Heft:
No. 343 (October 1921)
DOI Artikel:Domestic architecture and decoration, [3]
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21393#0172
DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURE AND DECORATION
HOUSE AT HARTFIELD, SUSSEX
UNSWORTH AND TRIGGS, ARCHITECTS
The roofs are tiled. About sixty houses
have already been completed, and it is
hoped that by next autumn the number will
reach two hundred. They are of varying
sizes—nowhere more than five to the
acre—and an attempt has been made to
attain a higher standard of convenience
in planning internal arrangements than
has hitherto been aimed at in subsidised
housing schemes. The scheme, like those
at Hampstead and Letchwortb, is on
co-partnership lines, all tenants being
shareholders and all ultimate profits going
back on to the estate, and the building
work is being done by direct labour. 0
Our next illustrations (page 158) show
two interesting treatments of that highly
important feature of a domestic interior
—the fireplace. The first belongs to a
house at Gosforth, Newcastle-on-Tyne,
erected during the early period of the
war from the design of Mr. C. A. Clayton
Greene, F.R.I.B.A., of Sunderland.
Abundant use has been made of English
oak in this house and it is employed very
effectively for the panelling surrounding
the fireplace illustrated,a brick construction
156
of a simple, homely character, specially
designed by the architect. The other fire-
place illustrated belongs to a house at By-
fleet in Surrey, designed by Messrs. Walker
&Harwoodof London. In theroom contain-
ing it all the woodwork has been enamelled
white, and the light effect has been carried
on in the fireplace surround by the use of
Pentelikon marble of a broken white tint
inset with diaper of Verde Antico. 0
The house at Mill Hill, Middlesex
(page 160), also designed by Messrs.
Walker & Harwood, is situated on the
border line between suburban London
and the country, and in its design the
architects have aimed to give expression
to this fact. The plan is arranged to take
full advantage of the sunlight and the
views; the drawing-room, which is in
use all day, has direct sunshine from
dawn till sunset, but the window on the
south side is not large enough to make the
room unduly hot in summer. A covered
passage on the north side gives access to
the back entrance and out-buildings,
and forms a passage way from front to
back without loss of frontage space. 0
HOUSE AT HARTFIELD, SUSSEX
UNSWORTH AND TRIGGS, ARCHITECTS
The roofs are tiled. About sixty houses
have already been completed, and it is
hoped that by next autumn the number will
reach two hundred. They are of varying
sizes—nowhere more than five to the
acre—and an attempt has been made to
attain a higher standard of convenience
in planning internal arrangements than
has hitherto been aimed at in subsidised
housing schemes. The scheme, like those
at Hampstead and Letchwortb, is on
co-partnership lines, all tenants being
shareholders and all ultimate profits going
back on to the estate, and the building
work is being done by direct labour. 0
Our next illustrations (page 158) show
two interesting treatments of that highly
important feature of a domestic interior
—the fireplace. The first belongs to a
house at Gosforth, Newcastle-on-Tyne,
erected during the early period of the
war from the design of Mr. C. A. Clayton
Greene, F.R.I.B.A., of Sunderland.
Abundant use has been made of English
oak in this house and it is employed very
effectively for the panelling surrounding
the fireplace illustrated,a brick construction
156
of a simple, homely character, specially
designed by the architect. The other fire-
place illustrated belongs to a house at By-
fleet in Surrey, designed by Messrs. Walker
&Harwoodof London. In theroom contain-
ing it all the woodwork has been enamelled
white, and the light effect has been carried
on in the fireplace surround by the use of
Pentelikon marble of a broken white tint
inset with diaper of Verde Antico. 0
The house at Mill Hill, Middlesex
(page 160), also designed by Messrs.
Walker & Harwood, is situated on the
border line between suburban London
and the country, and in its design the
architects have aimed to give expression
to this fact. The plan is arranged to take
full advantage of the sunlight and the
views; the drawing-room, which is in
use all day, has direct sunshine from
dawn till sunset, but the window on the
south side is not large enough to make the
room unduly hot in summer. A covered
passage on the north side gives access to
the back entrance and out-buildings,
and forms a passage way from front to
back without loss of frontage space. 0