The Garden from the Porch 
“MORETON ” 
The Residence of Mr. F. E. Sidney, F.S.A., at FIampstead, London 
TN the comprehension of the average Lon- 
doner, Hampstead is usually connected 
with nothing more than steep hills and the 
breezy heath, where cockneys spend their 
holiday hours 
and holiday 
money. Of the 
few who still 
delight in the 
o 1 d-f a s h i o n e d 
village and its 
eighteenth c e n- 
tury red brick 
houses are those 
unaware that, 
hidden in one of 
the old byways, 
is to be found 
a house which, 
but for the 
quickly gather¬ 
ing city grime, 
might have been 
bodily trans¬ 
planted from the 
great limestone 
belt which runs 
across England 
from east to west, 
from Lincoln- 
shire to the Cots- 
wolds; for over 
this house and 
the garden in which it stands there seem 
to fall something of the quiet and digniy 
which are the universal possession of the 
old stone-built manors with which the dis¬ 
trict referred to 
abounds. 
M o r e t o n is 
built with rough¬ 
cast walls and 
stone trimmings 
in that transi¬ 
tional style 
which marks the 
earliest influence 
o f t h e Italian 
Renaissance in 
England—Goth¬ 
ic, almost, in its 
constructional 
scheme and mod¬ 
ified only in its 
decorative parts 
by the new 
method. 
The wisdom 
of introducing so 
extraneous a 
treatment into 
what is after all 
a town plot, 
among houses, 
most of the m, 
both old and 
VIEW FROM THE EAST SHRUBBERY 
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