DRIVES, AVENUES, AND SERVICE ROADS. 



writer's experience the drive was taken round three sides of the house to the front door. 

 Unless the main entrance to the house has been very badly arranged, there could be no 

 excuse for this or for so placing the approach that it comes in front of the entertaining 

 room windows or overlooks the lawns or flower gardens. Even in the worst cases a 

 screen hedge should be included in the scheme. 



Double Double drives, enabling the traffic to return to the highway without turning round 



drives. in a more or less confined carriage court, and without having to pass other vehicles 



proceeding to the house, are almost invariably curved, otherwise, in most instances, in 

 looking along the drive, one entrance would be visible from the other, so destroying all 

 privacy and any attempt to create a sense of breadth of treatment. A notable exception 

 may be made in favour of those cases where the house is approached by an equal 

 amount of traffic from two directions, as in the sketch (No. 91), say from the railway 

 station on the one side and the village or town on the other. 



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FIG. 92. 



Speaking generally, however, the double drive is the prerogative of those houses 

 which stand in their own grounds but which "are so near a large town that they serve 

 all the purposes of a town residence, and so on the occasions of social functions, there 

 is a very large amount of wheeled traffic in a short space of time, and by reserving one 

 route for arrivals and the other for departing carriages, confusion is avoided. Such a 

 domain is shown on the plan of Broad Oaks, Accrington, (No. 92). Here the approaches 

 are treated in the informal manner which best lends itself to double drives on this 

 scale, while in illustration No. 94, a more formal arrangement is shown. 



Having decided the principle on which the main approach to the residence is to be 

 laid out, whether as an avenue or a formally or naturally treated drive, there are two 

 details common to all forms of approach, the planning of which demands consideration. 



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