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House Garden 
For the Thanksgiving Table 
Quality Linen 
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meal. 
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<3 37th Strect^Neid York 
“Thatched Cottage”, Llanwern, is built of the local stone 
and is a charming example of modern cottage architecture 
in England. Oswald P. Milne and Paul Phipps, architects 
ENGLISH COUNTRY HOUSES 
{Continuedfrom page 55) 
truly individual home because he does not 
try to please a host of personal as well as 
invisible critics. To attempt to please 
everj'one is a losing game in any human 
enterprise, and most of all in building 
3 mur house. Women especially, and men 
but little less, are unduly governed in this 
country by the spoken advice, warnings, 
recommendations and criticisms of their 
friends. And as most of this gratuitous aid 
is negative, not positive, most of our 
houses are a cautiously contrived fabric 
of “dont’s”. Worse still, we are far too 
much governed by unspoken criticism— 
by what we think people will think. If 
we are within the bonds of ordinary 
propriety, and are building a decent house 
—why care what they think? 
I have enlarged at some length on this 
first essential of the English country 
house because it is in many ways the most 
important of the four. One of the 
thoughts that should go along with it is 
that no chronicle of architecture in this 
country can ever record the countless 
fair projects and the really ideal house 
which architect and client might have 
built without the vicious and destructive 
advice of the client’sfriends andrelatives. 
The second essential is not entirely 
unrelated to the first. In England the 
tradition of the ancestral home is still a 
vivid and real thing. It is a part of the 
country, and has its effect even upon those 
who build a relatively small house. Of 
course there is speculative building, and 
there are rows of stereotyped, jerry-built 
houses, just as we have here. Theirs are 
much better designed, and whether ours 
are worse built than theirs is immaterial 
in this connection. 
The kind of speculative builder who is 
all too common here and very rare in 
England is the man who builds his own 
home (as he calls it) with more than half 
an eye to the speculation of selling it, 
someday . . . perhaps. No matter how 
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It is the manner in which the English country 
house is designed and built, rather than the 
actual materials used, which gives it a character 
that is difficult to transplant 
