SUMMER-HOUSES, PERGOLAS AND BRIDGES. 



stretch of Dorsetshire downs and beautifully wooded heights, on which two shelters are 

 erected. The whole is approached by a long straight woodland glade which has been cut 

 through a large plantation of well-matured oak trees. The shelters are placed on either 

 side of a central flight of steps, there being three distinct landscape views. The first 

 and most important is the one seen along the main axial line, the others from each of 

 the shelters. Such an arrangement of the two shelters has the additional advantage that 

 one is always in sunlight while the other is in shade. 



In the second case, illustrated in the end papers to this book, a very different set of 

 circumstances has to be dealt with, as the prospect is viewed across the gardens and 

 home park and stretches from North-east to South-west. Here the design of the structure 

 was suggested by the elevated nature of the site, together with the fact that it would 

 always be visible from the main entrance door to the house, with which it is placed 

 symmetrically, and the local building material which is a coarse-grained granite quarried 

 on the adjoining Dartmoor. 



FIG. 179. 



SUMMER-HOUSES IN SAME STYLE AS MANSION. 



FIG. l8o. 



The garden house at Foots Cray Place (111. No. 152) with its semicircular pergola in 

 front, is another example of view-point treatment ; but in this case it was necessary to 

 carry up the garden house to a second storey to obtain full advantage from the 

 prospect. 



A primitive summer-house or arbour is often required for a position in the wild Primitive 

 garden, along a woodland walk or in specially interesting spots to which short excursions summer- 

 are made, and being away from the dominating architectural features of the residence, houses. 

 may be constructed of any material ready to hand. In a stone district, rough, rubble- 

 built dry walls might be used and the roof covered with thatch of straw, gorse, or 

 bracken, or it may be shingled or slated. Where the cost of stone or brick is prohibitive, 

 wood might be substituted throughout, and the roof alone slated, provided always that 

 the woodwork is sufficiently strong. Such erections, if built in the simplest and most 

 direct manner and no attempt is made to improve them by applied ornament of any 

 kind, whether of twisted oak or virgin bark, will generally provide a summer-house rustic 



