HOUSES AND GARDENS 



is here about twenty-eight feet, and here, as before, the essential feature of 

 the ground plan is the large hall. Instead of the usual three small sitting-rooms 

 there is this roomy hall, with the other two sitting-rooms represented by the 

 relatively small bower or reception-room and the dining-recess, both of which 

 appear as mere appendages to the principal room. There is no attempt to 

 secure the usual apology for a garden towards the road, but a certain 

 character is given to the approach by introducing a little square paved court 

 which is approached from the road by an archway in the wall. Under the 

 kitchen wing would be a basement which would afford space for a larder, 

 washhouse and cellar. 



On the upper floor the bedroom accommodation consists of two rooms 

 facing the south, and two smaller ones overlooking the entrance court. The 

 position of the bathroom admits of a domed ceiling carried into the roof-space, 

 and lighted from above with a central circular skylight. The main roof- 

 space would contain, besides the servants' bedroom, two additional attics which 

 might be used either as additional bedrooms, children's playroom or study. 

 It is doubtful whether such a plan as this would appeal to the speculative 

 builder who is at present the sole arbiter of the fate of those who dwell in 

 terraces. Not because of its cost, because it could be built as cheaply as the 

 ordinary type of house, but merely because it is unusual and runs counter to 

 those cherished accepted traditions which have made the terrace house so 

 irrational and inartistic. 



The miniature gardens to these houses would admit of a variety of 

 treatment, and it is not suggested that they should all be similar in plan and 

 arrangement. In the garden, of which a plan and view is given, a more 

 liberal use of water has been made than is usual. The little square rose 

 garden, with its central fountain, overlooks a semicircular pool in which is 

 reflected the terrace wall and sundial, and beyond this a narrow stream 

 conducts the water to the lower pool, beyond which is the pergola forming 

 the termination to the garden. The posts of the pergola would be made of 

 pine-trunks with the bark on. In their natural state these are a little dark in 

 tone, so they could be whitewashed and would thus eventually show that 

 pearly grey tone which may be noticed in the tree trunks of old fruit-trees 

 which have been treated in this way. The importance of the proper study of 

 reflections in the use of water in a garden has suggested that the pergola 

 should begin at the edge of the water so that its columns and the lantern 

 which marks the line of the central vista are reflected there. 



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