Junction of 

 drive with 

 carriage 

 court. 



FIG. 96. 



DRIVES, AVENUES, AND SERVICE ROADS. 



ago, would have been considered extravagant or even ostentatious in their proportions, 



to-day only meet actual needs. 



Apart, however, from questions of safety 

 and convenience, it is necessary, as has already 

 been suggested, that the entrance, especially if 

 near the residence, should be planned strictly 

 in keeping with it, and, as a general rule, it- 

 may be said that the nearer the entrance is to 

 the house the more dignity it should possess. 

 The relative importance of the various entrances 

 to a large country seat should also be expressed 

 in their design and arrangement, and it is equally 

 necessary that there should be nothing to clash 

 with beautiful natural scenery where this exists. 

 As to the approach to the carriage court, 

 whether the drive should terminate at its side, 

 end or angle, depends partly upon the size and 



line of direction of the court and partly upon the architectural character and arrangement 



of the house, whether it is a perfectly balanced and sym- 

 metrical structure or a picturesque, many gabled composition 



without any dominant axis on which to centre drive, 



carriage court and gate piers as a self-contained and complete 



entity. In any case, however, it is wrong to enter the 



court with such a sharp curve as to lose any comprehensive 



view of the residence from lack of the necessary perspective. 

 Here are five examples of typical treatments from the 



writer's recent work. 



Illustration No. 99 shows the approach to a symmetri- 

 cally planned dignified classical mansion, having a fine 



pillared portico on to which the avenue centres, the double 



line of trees being set back forty feet from the centre of 



the drive on either side, giving a clear width of eighty feet> 



thus allowing a clear view of the entrance facade. There 



is a second approach to the West which centres on to an arch leading to the garage, 



over the centre of which is a clock cupola. 



No. 96 shows the approach to a Scotch 

 mansion which has an imposing entrance in 

 the angle of the "L" shaped building. In 

 this instance the court is enclosed within yew 

 hedges, and the position of the entrance has 

 given the opportunity for a somewhat unusual 

 "arrangement of brick paving over a portion 

 of its surface. 



No. 97 is the approach to the carriage 

 court at Wood, South Tawton, in Devonshire, 

 a view of which forms the subject of the end 

 papers to this book. In this case there is a 

 steep cross fall between the points A and 

 B, on the sketch. 



No. 98 shows the approach to a type of residence which is happily as usual as it 

 is delightful, one which has been built at various periods in the styles in vogue when 



FIG. 97. 



FIG. 



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