Small country houses of to-day

Weaver, Lawrence

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Persistent identifier:: 169173067X

Title:: Small country houses of to-day

Scope:: X, 224 Seiten

Year of publication:: 1913

Place of publication:: London

Publisher of the original:: published at the Offices of country life

Identifier (digital):: 169173067X

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Signature of the source:: a 1027

Language:: English

Additional Notes:: Erscheinungsdatum des Originals ist ermittelt.

Usage licence:: Public Domain Mark 1.0

Editor:: Weaver, Lawrence

Publisher of the digital copy:: Technische Informationsbibliothek Hannover

Place of publication of the digital copy:: Hannover

Year of publication of the original:: 2020

Document type:: Monograph

Collection:: Architecture

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Title:: UPPER DORVEL HOUSE, SAPPERTON. DESIGNED BY MR. A. ERNEST BARNSLEY.

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SMALL COUNTRY HOUSES OF TO-DAY. Cotswold parishes retain their old-world air, and Mr. Barnsley has settled in one where that air is quite uncorrupted. Nor will it be his fault if inroads are made upon its purity. For though the members of the little coterie to which he belongs have built themselves new houses, and, by their introduction of local industries, have added to the life and importance of Sapperton, all has been done with a full appreciation of the past and a desire to infuse its spirit into the present. Mr. Barnsley’s house is not built from an abstract de- sign set on paper as the unrestricted fulfilment of his ideal of. form and arrangement. It is an adaptation to circumstances of an assertive kind. Itis included in this volume, which has been made as varied as possible, not only as a type of appro- priateness to its surroundings, but as an able solution of the problem of how to build a house that shall fully satisfy the requirements— esthetic, ethical and domestic—of its occupants, on a site that imposes definite restrictions and already has a build- ing which is to be retained and incor- porated. There ave men in all avocations who, when all lies easy before them to carry out what they please, produce but a commonplace and in- effectual result, and only reach success when they meet dif- ficulty in the path and work under con- ditions of compro- 2 —*‘ THE BUILDING TOWERS UP FROM THE STEEP LANE.” mise. Without for one moment suggest- img that Mr. Barnsley’s powers are restricted to this field, it is beyond question true to say that he is thoroughly at home 1m it. He had to deal with a site awkward in shape. access. aspect and eradient and

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