House and Garden 
THE SOUTH FRONT 
chief concern was to have the new structure 
tire-proof and so the present house was 
built of brick, whitewashed, and well sup¬ 
plied with water. 
High Court became the property of its 
present owner, Mr. Norman Hapgood, about 
three years ago, after lying idle a number of 
years, Miss Lazarus in the meantime having 
married Humphreys-Johnston, the painter, 
and taken up her residence in Italy. 
The sunken gardens were overgrown almost 
to extinction with weeds and grass, and the 
lawns, terraces and shrubbery, as well as the 
house, had undergone devastation. 
Mrs. Hapgood, with a zeal 
for all things Italian, made 
it her care and pleasure to 
restore and complete the 
original owner’s intentions. 
In the two years that she 
has owned the property, 
magical changes have been 
wrought. I he bricks of the 
house have been painted white 
and the blinds, a light Venetian 
green, almost green bice, while 
the roof which was grey has 
been painted red, making the 
always desirable sky-line. 
While High Court, with its 
dramatic situation and charac¬ 
teristic fringe of Lombardy 
AN ITALIAN TROPHY 
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