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FIG. t44.— WALL WITH SQUARE BREAKS. 



FIG. 145. — CONCRliTE WALLS AT LAMBAY. 



FIG. 146, — WALL MASKING KITCHEN QUARTERS. 



1789 is on a stone 

 of the wall, his 

 authorship must be 

 doubted. The writer 

 of this has seen a 

 serpentine wall at a 

 Suffolk house of 

 late in the eighteenth 

 century. A good 

 modern example, a 

 single brick 

 thick, designed by 

 Mr. F. W. Troup, 

 is illustrated in 

 Small Country 

 Houses of To-day. 

 Built with the 

 same purpose as 

 a serpentine wall, 

 i.e., to give somewhat 

 sheltered bays for 

 fruit, is the straight 

 wall with square 

 breaks at a Buck- 

 inghamshire house 

 designed by Mr. P. 

 Morley Horder. It is 

 the better, both prac- 

 tically and in appear- 

 ance, for its tiled 

 ridge. In districts 

 where both stone 

 and brick are more 

 costly than concrete, 

 the latter material is 

 useful for garden 

 walls. In Fig. 145 is 

 illustrated a concrete 

 wall of very good 

 appearance, designed 

 by Mr. Lutyens for 

 the gardens of 

 Lambay Castle. The 

 terminal posts are 

 given almost a Doric 

 character by the 

 marks left by the 

 wood boxing set up 

 temporarily, into 

 which the half-liquid 



