Verandahs 

 to neo- 

 classic 

 houses. 



SUMMER-HOUSES, PERGOLAS AND BRIDGES. 



windows at its back. This is especially so in those cases where an old house has been 

 acquired and beautiful grounds laid out, and it is desired to erect a verandah of adequate 

 width from which to view the gardens from under cover in all weathers, and which will 

 not obstruct the light. An attempt to do this which has proved eminently successful is 

 shown in illustrations Nos. 171 and 172, where an existing terrace seventeen feet in width 

 has been covered in with a glass roof which, while it passes adequate light, does not show 

 from the garden below, and which is not too insistant or obtrusive from the verandah 

 itself. The principle which has dominated the design in this case might be adapted to 

 harmonize with any small country or suburban house where such a feature is to be 

 added, so avoiding the usually distressing result in such cases. 



Where the house is built in the classic 

 style with a pillared fagade, the verandah is 

 placed behind it, the hall being recessed for 

 the purpose, and the entrances from the 

 entertaining rooms being arranged as shown on 

 the sketch (111. No. 173). This arrangement 

 is, of course, only available when light can 

 be admitted into the hall at its opposite end, and can only be contrived when the whole 

 house is being planned. In such cases it is not possible to add a verandah after the 

 house is built, but loggias may be substituted. 

 These features are generally placed at either 

 end of a garden court or architecturally 

 treated terrace, as shown in the sketch (111. 

 No. 174), and if properly contrived and 

 designed in harmony with the classic details 

 of the residence, may add greatly to its effect 

 by broadening the fagade and strengthening 

 its base. Such structures will usually be 

 placed as terminal features on a terrace, 

 clear of the main front of the house, for they cannot be placed in front of houses of 

 classic design without destroying the element of breadth so necessary to a dignified 



FIG. 173. 



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FIG. 174. 



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FIG. 175. 



composition. The homelier mansions however, built in local traditional styles and without 

 marked symmetry of their parts, are often helped by one or a pair of garden houses 



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