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Gardens for Small Country Houses. 



attractive pair of wooden gates approached 

 by two curved steps. Beyond them a 

 mounting block witnesses to the days before 

 petrol had all but supplanted horseman- 

 ship. The entrance to Biddestone Manor 

 (Fig. 277) shows the good effect of a simple 

 and well-designed pair of stone piers and 

 a longer flight of steps. The battery of 

 Time and lichen have left their tender 

 marks on this typical Cotswold ashlar- 

 work. When the house is close to a 

 frequented road it ensures a larger privacy 

 if the waU is carried high and the doorway 

 made in an arched opening, as in the 

 example designed by Mr. Walter Brierley, 

 and shown in Fig. 279. A sense of security 

 is given by filling the tympanum of the 



FIG. 



27 



8. — GATEWAY TO A COURTY.\RD. 



arch with wrought-iron work, and the 

 gate is the easier to open from not being 

 the full width of the opening. A similar 

 treatment is shown in Fig. 27S, where an 



gate 



gives entrance to a pav 



•ed 



FIG. 279. — ENTRANCE FROM ROAD TO SMALL GARDEN. 



iron 

 courtyard. 



The steadj^ increase in the use of 

 motor-cars by people of moderate means 

 tends to make a carriage entrance 

 necessary for houses of quite modest 

 size. Many are content with the pro- 

 vision of a simple field gate ; but when 

 something more ambitious is contemplated, 

 the design of the gates themselves and of 



