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the wall, and has a delightful little conical 

 roof rising at the angle. This unusual and 

 interesting plan has the practical advan- 

 tage that the occupants of the pavilion 

 have two views, one down the path to the 

 first summer-house, the other across the 

 lawn. Reference must also be made to 

 the treatment of the wall. The stepping 

 in its parapet is emphasised by the crown- 

 ing of the piers by simple ornaments of 

 obelisk type which have quite a Jacobean 

 flavour. But they are no more than old 

 rick-stones, and their mushroom-shaped 

 tops have been placed under the stalks to 

 serve as bases. It was an ingenious 

 thought to give these old features of the 

 farmyard a new lease of life as garden 

 decorations. At The Grove, Mill Hill, 

 Mr. Stanley Hamp has designed a pleasant 

 garden - house (Fig. 303) in brick and 

 timber, which is the more interesting for 



FIG. 304. THATCHED HOUSE IN NORFOLK. 



FIG. 303. AT THE GROVE, MILL HILL. 



being set on the side of a sharp slope. 

 Rising as it does from a well-grown 

 herbaceous border, it dominates its 

 surroundings in very agreeable fashion, 

 and looks across a wide stretch of 

 garden to the house, with which it 

 accords well. 



The thatched pavilion at Happis- 

 burgh, Norfolk, designed by Mr. 

 Detmar Blow, is in a vernacular 

 manner (Fig. 304). The house which 

 it adjoins is also thatched. In general 

 this roof treatment needs to be em- 

 ployed with discretion. Sometimes a 

 rustic pavilion, log-built and thatched, 

 will be placed in relation to a. house 



