Moreton 
PLAN OF THE HOUSE AND GROUNDS 
new, built of brick, is not at once apparent; 
but the actual circumstances of the case justi¬ 
fied the course taken, for, in the first place, 
not only was it the desire of the owner to have 
a Tudor-built house and a formal garden, 
but the ground, as it will be perceived, was 
peculiarly adapted to terracing and formal¬ 
ism, and in addition, by reason of its sharp 
declivities and existing trees, could be made 
to be almost completely self-contained. The 
only distant outlook, that to the southwest, 
is an uninterrupted one over the whole of 
Western London as far as the hills on the 
further side of the Thames Valley. 
This power to neglect environment must 
in a sense have made the problem a simpler 
one than would have been presented if adjoin¬ 
ing buildings bad pressed upon the view and 
their color and arrangement demanded con¬ 
sideration; the result therefore which the 
owner and Mr. Thomas Garner, the architect, 
have worked together to produce is entirely 
satisfactory both within and without. Mr. 
Sidney has furnished the interior in closest 
sympathy with the whole architectural treat¬ 
ment and has made it as well a veritable 
treasure house of art. With good specimens 
of Fra Angelico, of Bellini, Perugino, Lucas 
Cranach, to mention only a few of the Dutch 
and Italian masters on the walls, and a splen¬ 
did sequence of Old English furniture and 
china, Swiss and German painted glass to in¬ 
terest and distract, a due subordination in the 
architectural fitments was only to be expected 
in the ceilings alone, perhaps, is an excep¬ 
tion to this rule to be found. I hese have 
been left exactly as they came from the mod¬ 
eler’s hand, and being, therefore, unwhitened, 
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