DOI Heft:
No. 372 (March 1924)
DOI Artikel:[Notes: two hundred and twenty-one illustrations]
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21399#0177
LIVERPOOL
LIVERPOOL. — To transform the
commonplace into the beautiful is
a great architectural feat. To keep old
beauties where any exist, and to make
the derelict lovely is not only difficult :
it is also exciting, as Mr. Leonard Barnish
found when he undertook the magician’s
task of turning a dilapidated, ordinary
little house, and an inconvenient, steep
•garden with dangerous paths and un-
mowable grass from an ugly duckling into
a swan. The house was a late Georgian
structure of stone, with a decaying rough
cast covering, used originally more for
smooth finish than for weathering pur-
poses. Rough stone, properly pointed,
is now preferred, for it gives beautiful
texture. 00000
The original eaves cornice had been
•cut away, a cast iron gutter substituted,
and the roof left looking like a hat without
without a brim. There were beauties,
however, in the old sashes with their
dividing bars and old crown glass, still
intact. The secluded garden had fine
trees, beech and arbutus, and a picturesque
row of apple trees. The removal of an old
tub brought the thrill fate reserves for
GARDEN DESIGNED BY
LEONARD BARNISH, F.R.I.B.A.
adventurers-—a small quarry of sandstone !
This settled the garden scheme, naturally,
though the extent of the quarry being at
, «■ O A D
PLAN OF GARDEN DESIGNED BY
LEONARD BARNISH, F.R.I.B.A.
i59
LIVERPOOL. — To transform the
commonplace into the beautiful is
a great architectural feat. To keep old
beauties where any exist, and to make
the derelict lovely is not only difficult :
it is also exciting, as Mr. Leonard Barnish
found when he undertook the magician’s
task of turning a dilapidated, ordinary
little house, and an inconvenient, steep
•garden with dangerous paths and un-
mowable grass from an ugly duckling into
a swan. The house was a late Georgian
structure of stone, with a decaying rough
cast covering, used originally more for
smooth finish than for weathering pur-
poses. Rough stone, properly pointed,
is now preferred, for it gives beautiful
texture. 00000
The original eaves cornice had been
•cut away, a cast iron gutter substituted,
and the roof left looking like a hat without
without a brim. There were beauties,
however, in the old sashes with their
dividing bars and old crown glass, still
intact. The secluded garden had fine
trees, beech and arbutus, and a picturesque
row of apple trees. The removal of an old
tub brought the thrill fate reserves for
GARDEN DESIGNED BY
LEONARD BARNISH, F.R.I.B.A.
adventurers-—a small quarry of sandstone !
This settled the garden scheme, naturally,
though the extent of the quarry being at
, «■ O A D
PLAN OF GARDEN DESIGNED BY
LEONARD BARNISH, F.R.I.B.A.
i59