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Domestic architecture
DOI Artikel:Scott, Mackay H. Baillie: A small country house
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.41871#0030
A SMALL COUNTRY HOUSE
parlour or study without disturbing the privacy of the hall which may, when
occasion requires, be curtained off from the recess.
On the right is the study, and here, in order to get a recess for a bookshelf as
well as to add to the seclusion proper to a study, the wall is thickened. The
study measures 13 feet by 12 feet. It is low-ceiled and the decoration of its
walls consists mainly of books from floor to ceiling. A position is indicated
on the plan for a writing-table with a left-hand light from the window on the
north. The windows are casements, in groups of three, which in a low room
can be carried up to the ceiling level without undue attenuation.
Immediately opposite the door from the porch is the entrance to the par-
lour—an irregular L-shaped room about 20 feet by 21 feet (p. 17). Here
the windows open like glazed doors on to the garden to the south. This kind
of window gives the room a distinctive character in comparison with the
other sitting-rooms and links it up more closely with the garden. The lawn
would here extend right up to the home so that on the south you may step
from the room on to the grass.
The hall (p. 15) measures about 20 feet by 22 feet to which must be added
the recess on the north side. It will be noted that this plan shows a house
without a dining-room which, in this case, has been merged into the hall in
order to get a really roomy apartment as the central feature of the house. A
circular dining-table of the gate-legged type would be placed where shown
by dotted lines on the plan. On the south the principal window is projected
under the overhanging part of the house-front above. This window has a
wide window-sill, and adjoining it is a smaller window with a high sill below
which a writing-bureau could be placed. The beams are shown by dotted
lines on the plan. This hall, by its dominant size and position, will possess
much the same qualities as the hall or house-place of the old English country
houses. But imme-
diately adjoining it
to the south-east is a
feature essentially
modern. This is the
garden-room, as we
may call it, a com-
pound of conserva-
tory, loggia, and ver-
andah. In summer
time the south front
to the garden will
be left open, and this
room is really on
most occasions the
dining-room of the
house. On the left
H
GROUND PLAN
parlour or study without disturbing the privacy of the hall which may, when
occasion requires, be curtained off from the recess.
On the right is the study, and here, in order to get a recess for a bookshelf as
well as to add to the seclusion proper to a study, the wall is thickened. The
study measures 13 feet by 12 feet. It is low-ceiled and the decoration of its
walls consists mainly of books from floor to ceiling. A position is indicated
on the plan for a writing-table with a left-hand light from the window on the
north. The windows are casements, in groups of three, which in a low room
can be carried up to the ceiling level without undue attenuation.
Immediately opposite the door from the porch is the entrance to the par-
lour—an irregular L-shaped room about 20 feet by 21 feet (p. 17). Here
the windows open like glazed doors on to the garden to the south. This kind
of window gives the room a distinctive character in comparison with the
other sitting-rooms and links it up more closely with the garden. The lawn
would here extend right up to the home so that on the south you may step
from the room on to the grass.
The hall (p. 15) measures about 20 feet by 22 feet to which must be added
the recess on the north side. It will be noted that this plan shows a house
without a dining-room which, in this case, has been merged into the hall in
order to get a really roomy apartment as the central feature of the house. A
circular dining-table of the gate-legged type would be placed where shown
by dotted lines on the plan. On the south the principal window is projected
under the overhanging part of the house-front above. This window has a
wide window-sill, and adjoining it is a smaller window with a high sill below
which a writing-bureau could be placed. The beams are shown by dotted
lines on the plan. This hall, by its dominant size and position, will possess
much the same qualities as the hall or house-place of the old English country
houses. But imme-
diately adjoining it
to the south-east is a
feature essentially
modern. This is the
garden-room, as we
may call it, a com-
pound of conserva-
tory, loggia, and ver-
andah. In summer
time the south front
to the garden will
be left open, and this
room is really on
most occasions the
dining-room of the
house. On the left
H
GROUND PLAN