HOUSE AND GARDEN 
March, 1911 
The English fireplace and its mantel treatment 
is in contrast to the American type 
The hall, with its fire corner screened from the passage to the entrance hall. Teak 
blocks are used for the flooring, and oak paneling in the inglenock 
pleasant and quite different from the 
crude raw look of a new house when ordi¬ 
nary red bricks and tiles are used. 
There are several notable features, 
among which may be noted the mullioned 
windows of two or three lights and the 
dentil course beneath the eaves. The pro¬ 
jecting bow-windows are well conceived, 
and the porch with its curved head and 
pillared portico is characteristic of Mr. 
Newton’s work. You will admire the 
chimney stacks, which are based upon 
some of the best models of Tudor build¬ 
ing, and notice that the architect has not 
cramped himself by adhering to a perfect 
regularity of plan. Thus one wing, where 
the servants’ quarters are, is larger than 
the other, and the central chimney is not 
in the centre of the middle roof. An at¬ 
tempt at absolute uniformity and regu¬ 
larity is wisely avoided. 
Before entering the house we will ex¬ 
amine the garden front. It is very sim¬ 
ilar to the entrance front. 
We see the mullioned win¬ 
dows, the two bow-win¬ 
dows and the two small cir¬ 
cular ones on each side of 
the porch, which stands ex¬ 
actly opposite to the other 
entrance. Before this 
porch, enclosed by the 
wings, is the garden court, 
which is paved with rough 
flags, not closely placed to¬ 
gether, but with interstices 
in which rock plants are 
cultivated. The surface of 
the court is diversified by 
footpaths of large red 
quarries. A spacious lawn 
stretches in front, srirt by a 1 
tall trees and woodland. giving 
The second floor, called the first floor in 
England, has a supply of baths that 
would do credit to an American home 
It is interesting to note what a wealth 
of outside light- is given the rooms by 
this form of plan 
is used upon walls and woodwork in the drawing-room, 
a splendid setting for the mahogany furniture 
The stables form part of the plan of 
the house. They are not relegated to a 
corner and hidden away behind walls and 
trees as though they were buildings to be 
ashamed of, as in the case of old-fash¬ 
ioned houses. Believing that stables and 
outhouses can be made beautiful and de¬ 
serve as careful architectural treatment as 
the house itself, the architect has made 
them fit into the general scheme. 
Inside, the house is not a large one. The 
hall with its fireplace is 26 x 18 ft., occu¬ 
pying the depth of the house, so that you 
will see the width of the body of the house 
is only eighteen feet. This hall is a very 
comfortable room to sit and lounge in. On 
the left is the staircase. On the right in 
the wing is the drawing-room, library and 
billiard-room. The drawing-room is 22 x 
16 ft; the billiard-room, 24 x 18 ft. The 
dining-room in the other wing is exactly 
the same size as the drawing-room and 
with it are grouped the servants’ quarters, 
kitchen, scullery, servants’ 
hall, pantry, store-rooms, 
etc. In the upper floor 
there are five bedroms and 
two bathrooms for the fam¬ 
ily and guests, and four 
bedrooms and bathroom in 
the servants’ department. 
The decorative scheme is 
cream color, which gives a 
still greater impression of 
roominess. There is no 
cramped feeling about the 
house, for it was consid¬ 
ered much better to have it 
restful and attractive than 
to leave narrow passages, 
stuffy rooms and more of 
them than would be really 
necessary. 
