SUMMER-HOUSES, PERGOLAS AND BRIDGES. 



in front. If the terrace to a classic building extends far enough on either side of the 

 main structure, the composition may be further helped by a colonnaded effect. 



Two designs for garden houses terminating extended terraces are shown in illustrations Garden 

 Nos. 415 and 175. The first of these shows a terrace design in connection with Foots houses. 

 Cray Place, in Kent, and illustrates many points bearing on the arrangement of the 

 surroundings of early renaissance buildings, while the second, which formed part of the 

 design for laying out the grounds to Dalham Hall, near Newmarket, the seat of the 

 late Right Hon. Cecil Rhodes, indicates methods more in keeping with the spirit of a 

 simple Georgian residence. 



An example of, a summer-house designed to give point and architectural emphasis to 

 the ends of a terraced lawn is shown in illustration No. 176 and was erected in 



FIG. 176. SUMMER-HOUSE AT END OF 

 TERRACE. 



FIG. 177. SUMMER-HOUSE IN SAME STYLE AS THE 

 MANSION. 



Westmorland, the local slate-stone being the material used. In illustration No. 177 again 

 we have a form of garden house primarily intended to bring into the scheme for the 

 grounds some of the dominant architectural qualities of the mansion to which the terraces 

 form the foreground. They serve also to break up a somewhat flat expanse of garden and 

 provide the antidote to a preponderance of horizontal lines, and at the same time supply 

 convenient rest-houses or shelters. Here, as in the previous examples, the garden-houses 

 are placed equidistant from, and on either side of, the main axial line running through 

 the house and grounds. 



In all the cases considered so far, there has been a very marked symmetrical arrange- 

 ment in the design of the house, and so this quality has necessarily been expressed in 

 the gardens. The architectural treatment and even colour and texture of the summer- 

 houses and loggias have also been made to correspond with that of the mansion. 

 Symmetry of parts is however not always either possible or desirable, and, in fact, 

 even where the design is symmetrical as a whole, it will very often be found that practical 

 considerations interfere with its attainment in some of the details of the scheme. This 

 will be more particularly so where one end of a terrace is finished by a summer-house 

 and the other must necessarily be left open for access to other parts of the grounds 

 or because any erection would interfere with the view from important windows of the 

 house or otherwise. In such cases balance must be obtained by other means. Some- 



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