The Studio yearbook of decorative art (1915)

SMALL COUNTRY HOUSES AND COTTAGES


HOUSE AT NORTH WASTE SYDNEY R. JONES AND H. W. HOBBISS, ARCHITECTS

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and the pendulum of artistic accomplishment has swung this way and
that: one period has found conditions fit and people ready to advance
the finest traditions of the building art ; at another the light of archi-
tecture has burned low, overshadowed by more momentous events, and
only with difficulty has it been
possible to keep the dim light
burning. But through all
changing times the local tradi-
tions that produced the sturdy
architecture of the countryside
—the small houses and cottages
—remainedmostconstant,lived
on longest, and bring the last
days of the great English build-
ing era nearest to us.
Inconsideringthe small country
houses of to-day it must there-
fore be remembered that it is
not so very far back to the time
when such were being built
upon principles that were good,


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PLAN OF HOUSE AT NORTH WASTE

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