HEATHER COTTAGE 



IN the plan of this little house and garden on a hillside, the levels or the 

 ground formed the most important factor. It is long and low, but while at 

 one end it consists of merely a ground-floor room with attic over, at the 

 other the sloping ground has changed it into a house of practically two storeys. 

 To the north the hill rises considerably and helps to shelter the house. 

 It serves, indeed, as a practical illustration of the principle of placing a house, 

 not on the highest point in the site, which is so often done, but at an 

 intermediate level, which gives both shelter and view. In the garden the 

 pergola is a notable feature, serving to screen the drive from the lawn, 

 of which it forms the northern boundary. One of the objections sometimes 

 raised to the pergola is that the flowers of the creepers which clothe 

 it are all outside, and not seen from the inside, where the effect, save 

 for such flowers as may bloom in the borders, is mainly one of light and 

 shade. This suggests the placing of the pergola so that its exterior may also 

 form a garden feature, and in this case its sunny side comes into view both 

 from the drawing-room window and the lawn. 



In the house, the dining-hall, with its open timber roof and wide ingle, is 

 the central and dominant apartment. The dining-table is placed at one end 

 across the room. The drawing-room is small and low, and over it the study 

 forms a little attic-room with its private stair and gallery overlooking the 

 hall. The arrangement of the bedrooms allows of the treatment of the 

 dressing-room as a second bathroom, with comparatively little extra cost in 

 plumbing, while a third little staircase gives access to servants' room over the 

 kitchen. At the time of writing this house is in process of construction, and 

 drawings must replace photographs in its illustration. These at least admit of 

 some suggestion of the colour, in which the heather, from which the house 

 takes its name, is a notable feature. 



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