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Great Britain
DOI article:Great Britain: some notes on the illustrations
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GREAT BRITAIN
while the exterior was thoroughly bad. Mr. Dixon-Spain has
drastically altered the plan and has treated the exterior as shown
in the two views on page 23, which convey the impression of an old
manor house, a typical English home. Amongst the most
interesting features he has introduced are the brick-mullioned
windows and fine staircase and hall. Some exceedingly simple
chimney-pieces, based on good early Georgian examples, give
charm to the rooms.
Soundness of design and construction are invariably displayed
in the work of Messrs. Forbes and Tate. These characteristics may
be found in the small house at Gerrard’s Cross shown on page 24.
It is built of hand-made, sand-faced bricks and tiles, and all the
external and internal woodwork is of pitch pine, stained dove-grey
colour. In planning the house care was taken to preserve a clump
of fir-trees.
We illustrate on pages 28 to 30 two houses by a Scottish
architect, Mr. James Kennedy Hunter. “ Lanfine,” Ayrshire,
occupies a prominent site overlooking the Irvine valley, between
Newmilns and Darvel, and the whole interior has been replanned
and the internal structure and decorations entirely altered by
Mr. Hunter. The hall and dining-room are finished in Austrian
oak, while the latter room has panelled walls and beams across the
ceiling. A feature of this room is the oak mantelpiece, with stone
fireplace. In the hall there is a large open fireplace. The drawing-
room, which is L-shaped, with an ingle fireplace, has a panelled
dado and upper walls. The ceiling is of modelled plaster in low
relief. The gardens are also being rearranged, and the new tennis-
lawn, seen in our illustration, is bordered by a stone-built terrace
with steps.
“ The Croft,” Dairy, stands on an eminence known as North
Brae, overlooking the valley of the Garnock. It is built of brick,
harled and washed with Irish lime. The roofs are covered with
Cumberland slates in mixed shades, a few Scotch slates being also
introduced; the ridges are of concrete. The drawing-room, illustrated
here, is finished with pine, painted white.
The house designed by Mr. R. F. Johnston, illustrated on
page 33, takes its name from a beautiful orchard in the neighbour-
hood of Chorley Wood. The materials used are small, rough, hand-
made bricks, with flints on the main gable. The roof is covered with
rough thick tiles, and the oak-work throughout is finished rough and
sand-blasted, giving an agreeable silver-grey colour. The design
depends for its effect on the long roof-line and simple composition.
“ Eversley,” Newcastle, Staffordshire (p. 34), is a compactly
planned house, an improved reproduction of one at the Gidea Park
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while the exterior was thoroughly bad. Mr. Dixon-Spain has
drastically altered the plan and has treated the exterior as shown
in the two views on page 23, which convey the impression of an old
manor house, a typical English home. Amongst the most
interesting features he has introduced are the brick-mullioned
windows and fine staircase and hall. Some exceedingly simple
chimney-pieces, based on good early Georgian examples, give
charm to the rooms.
Soundness of design and construction are invariably displayed
in the work of Messrs. Forbes and Tate. These characteristics may
be found in the small house at Gerrard’s Cross shown on page 24.
It is built of hand-made, sand-faced bricks and tiles, and all the
external and internal woodwork is of pitch pine, stained dove-grey
colour. In planning the house care was taken to preserve a clump
of fir-trees.
We illustrate on pages 28 to 30 two houses by a Scottish
architect, Mr. James Kennedy Hunter. “ Lanfine,” Ayrshire,
occupies a prominent site overlooking the Irvine valley, between
Newmilns and Darvel, and the whole interior has been replanned
and the internal structure and decorations entirely altered by
Mr. Hunter. The hall and dining-room are finished in Austrian
oak, while the latter room has panelled walls and beams across the
ceiling. A feature of this room is the oak mantelpiece, with stone
fireplace. In the hall there is a large open fireplace. The drawing-
room, which is L-shaped, with an ingle fireplace, has a panelled
dado and upper walls. The ceiling is of modelled plaster in low
relief. The gardens are also being rearranged, and the new tennis-
lawn, seen in our illustration, is bordered by a stone-built terrace
with steps.
“ The Croft,” Dairy, stands on an eminence known as North
Brae, overlooking the valley of the Garnock. It is built of brick,
harled and washed with Irish lime. The roofs are covered with
Cumberland slates in mixed shades, a few Scotch slates being also
introduced; the ridges are of concrete. The drawing-room, illustrated
here, is finished with pine, painted white.
The house designed by Mr. R. F. Johnston, illustrated on
page 33, takes its name from a beautiful orchard in the neighbour-
hood of Chorley Wood. The materials used are small, rough, hand-
made bricks, with flints on the main gable. The roof is covered with
rough thick tiles, and the oak-work throughout is finished rough and
sand-blasted, giving an agreeable silver-grey colour. The design
depends for its effect on the long roof-line and simple composition.
“ Eversley,” Newcastle, Staffordshire (p. 34), is a compactly
planned house, an improved reproduction of one at the Gidea Park
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