Garden-houses. 



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Fig. 316A shows 

 an old example at 

 Kinross House, 

 designed by Sir 

 William Bruce. 



Another 

 attractive httle 

 garden house 

 is at Staplefield 

 Grange, Sussex, 

 the home of Mr. 

 Percy Macquoid 



313). It 

 from the 

 of Robert 

 Adam, and was 

 built as an ad- 

 junct to a late 

 eighteenth cen- 

 tury villa at 

 T \\' i c k e n h a m . 

 When the house 

 suffered 

 damage 

 not long 

 very apt 

 it 

 of 



(Fig. 

 dates 

 time 



great 



FIG. 314. A TRELLIS GARDEN SHELTER. 



by 



fire 



the 



use of the prize 



IS, m fact, built of wood. 



steps it gives a charmin; 



remaining materials were 



he secured. 

 Seen across 

 architectural 



sold, and Mr. Macquoid has made 

 Although its design suggests masonrj^ 



a lily pool 

 flavour to 



flight 



at the top of a steep 



a beautiful garden. 



Though this chapter 

 deals c h i e f 1 y w i t h 

 garden-houses of solid 

 construction, one picture 

 is given of a garden 

 shelter designed by Mr. 

 Basil Oliver on lines 

 which slightly recall 

 Chippendale's trellis 

 manner (Fig. 314), and 

 another of two thatched 

 shelters at Mr. F. E. 

 cottage, de- 



Mr. Alan 

 315). It is 



fl<^- 3I5.^THATCHED GARDEN SHELTERS AT CHARLTON, OXON. 



Smith' 

 signed b y 

 James (Fig 

 as well to bear in mind 

 that the outlying parts 

 of the garden devoted 

 to its purely working 

 hours should not be 

 made unseemly by tool- 

 houses roofed with 



