HOW THE HOUSE WAS BUILT 7 



approach to a house to be as quiet and modest as 

 possible, and in this case I wanted it to tell its own 

 story as the way in to a small dwelling standing in 

 wooded ground. The path runs to an arch in the 

 eastern wall of the house, leading into a kind of long 

 porch, or rather a covered projection of lean-to shape. 

 This serves as a dry approach to the main door, and 

 also as a comfortable full-stop to the southern face of 

 the house, returning forward square with that face. 

 Its lower western side shows fiat arches of heavy 

 timber work which are tied and braced across to the 

 higher eastern wall by more of the same. Any one 

 entering looks through to the garden picture of lawn 

 and trees and low broad steps, and dwarf dry wall 

 crowned with the hedge of Scotch Briers. As the 

 house is on ground that falls gently to the north, the 

 lawn on this, the southern side, is on a higher level ; 

 and standing in front of the house and looking to- 

 wards the porch, the illustration shows how it looks 

 from the garden side in late summer when the tubs of 

 Hydrangea are in full flower. The main door leads 

 into a roomy entrance and then to a short passage, 

 passing the small dining-room on the left, to the 

 sitting-room. 



The sitting-room is low and fairly large, measuring 

 twenty-seven by twenty- one feet, and eight feet from 

 floor to ceiling. A long low range of window lights it 

 from the south, and in the afternoon a flood of western 

 light streams in down the stairs from another long 



