EVERDENE 



IN many of the country houses illustrated it will he noted that the favourite 

 formula is that in which the garden front faces the south and the 

 entrance front the north. One enters at the hack. And this arrangement is 

 usually most to be desired. In the present case, however, the road being on 

 the south side of the plot, it is desirable that the entrance should be either 

 on the west or east front, while the accommodation required seems to 

 suggest the possibility of a house built round and enclosing an inner 

 court. The house is low one storey with attics- -an arrangement which 

 admits ot a hall with an open timber roof, and which, in bringing the attics 

 down to the first floor level, makes them more valuable than when they 

 can only be reached by a long climb. In country districts, where land is 

 not too expensive, this broad and low manner of building has much to 

 recommend it, for not only does it make use of all the roof- space, and that 

 in ways which add greatly to the picturesque character of the interior, but by- 

 bringing the rooms so formed within easy reach it makes them of greater 

 value. 



In the disposition of the ground floor, the important feature is the three 

 rooms to the south, culminating in the central hall, while the bedrooms and 

 kitchen premises enclose the court on the remaining three sides. The bath- 

 room on the ground floor, with a bath, perhaps, of circular form sunk in its 

 floor, is capable of special treatment, which would make it somewhat more 

 interesting than the bathroom of the usual utilitarian type. The study, with 

 its little special private stair, forms an attic-room, with shuttered openings 

 overlooking the hall. 



In this type of plan, indeed, the claims of romance seem to meet most 

 happily economical limitations. Its cost, at the average country price of eight - 

 pence per cubic foot, amounts to about ^2000. In some districts it would 

 be less than this, and in others, near London, it would amount to perhaps 

 ^2500, at tenpence per cubic foot. But the use of the roof-space gives for 

 this sum a considerable accommodation. 



The treatment of the garden illustrates the application of the principle of 

 carefully studied vista effects applied to an actual site of sorntwhat irregular 

 form on a practically level piece of ground. 



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