The Studio yearbook of decorative art (1917)

BRITISH DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURE
yet even here a lady, who was inspecting a new house next to “ The
Cloisters,” mistook the object of certain building activities there and
said: “I am so glad you are going to pull down that ugly old house
next door ! ” Several exterior and interior views of “ The Cloisters ” ap-
peared in The Studio Year-Book, 1913.
“Wallingford,” Purley (pp. 40 and 41), has been erected on high
ground, with a slope to the south which afforded an opportunity of
forming a terrace garden. The house is planned on simple lines and
with due regard to both aspect and prospect. A flagged terrace, a tennis
lawn, and a sunk garden, with a pool and fountain, are formed on the
south of the house ; whilst on the west are a rose garden and pergola.
The house and garden were designed by Mr. Sydney Tatchell.
“ Nether Cormiston ” (p. 42) has been erected in Lanarkshire in one of
the upper reaches of the river Clyde, and is beautifully situated in
grounds which extend to about twelve acres, and on the southern side
slopes gently down to the river, commanding a magnificent view of
Coulter Fell. The house is protected on two sides by a belt of fir-trees;
while of the other two sides, one is bounded by the river Clyde, and on
the fourth is a pleasant road, with a small stream which has been bridged
at the lodge by a girder bridge, with red brick piers and parapet. The
grounds are ideal for a house of this kind. There are many delightful
nooks in the sunk gardens, part of which is indicated in the photograph.
The house is spacious and up-to-date in all respects. It was designed
by Mr. John Thomson, of Messrs. Thomson, Sandilands and MacLeod.
“ Brinsop Court,” near Hereford (p. 43), was the medieval home of the
Danceys, and their fourteenth-century hall was only slightly wrecked
when it became a granary in the nineteenth century. It has now been
put back into its original condition by repairing its fine oaken roof, re-
newing missing portions of its window tracery, reopening its fine arch,
and replacing its floor at the right level. Like the halls at “ Aydon
Castle,” Northumberland, and at “ Markenfield,” Yorkshire, it has an
undercroft, and its principal entrance is up a flight of outside steps
occupying the corner of the quadrangle opposite the one shown in the
illustration. That gives another remaining portion of Gothic work in
stone, between two new sections of timber framing, constructed on
exactly the same lines as some original work in that material discovered
under modern plaster on the outer elevation of the side, of which the in-
terior elevation is in brick, dating, as may be judged by the style of the
gable and its octagon light, from the early half of the eighteenth cen-
tury. It had been a good deal pulled about, and it suited the interior
style and exterior harmony to replace late sashes by plain oak mullioned
windows. In 1911, only a portion of what remained of the old house
was thus inhabited, the rest forming delapidated farm accommodation.
Large works of renovation were begun, the quadrangle again com-
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