52 
House & Garden 
A REMODELED HOUSE IN THE COTSWOLDS 
The Architectural Factors that Create the Charm of Orchard Farm at 
Broadway in Worcestershire 
H. D. EBERLEIN 
O RCHARD FARM, at Broadway in 
Worcestershire, the home of the 
Lady Maude Lyon, embodies in its 
fabric a great share of what is best and 
most alluring in the Cotswold style of 
architecture. The house, as it now stands, 
exhibits a well preserved and carefully 
cherished old body, a bit of intelligent 
and consistent remodeling, and a small 
portion of modern growth very logically 
added on to meet current requirements. 
That it may afford to home builders, or 
to those about to remodel and adapt old 
houses, a stimulus clearly understood and 
of definite direction, we must closely ex¬ 
amine the ensemble and reckon the factors 
that go to make up its undeniable charm. 
And in order to do this understandingly, 
let us first note the particular features of 
the structure, indicating what is old, what 
is adapted to new uses, and what is new. 
The entrance hall shows the mod¬ 
ern leaded glass and inside shutters, 
a touch of restoration in the Cots¬ 
wold style. Another view of the 
hall can he seen in the frontispiece 
of this issue 
Most of the body of the house seen from 
the road is as it was originally. Even 
within this portion no very radical altera¬ 
tions were attempted. Though apparently 
of considerable extent, Orchard Farm, as 
was the wont with very many old Cots¬ 
wold houses, was only one room deep. 
This plan, of course, had the advantage 
of ensuring ample light and ventilation 
from two sides. But the house would not 
have been large enough, even for a small 
family, according to present day standards 
of living. Salvation, in this instance, lay 
in the proximity of the old barn which 
almost adjoined the house at right angles 
on the southwest. 
To meet the needs of the case, therefore, 
the barn was connected with the house by 
building up the small intervening space, 
and was converted into a long, spacious 
living room on the ground floor and a 
The living room occupies the entire 
floor of what was formerly the 
barn, now attached to the main 
body of the house. The varying 
levels and furniture groups are 
worthy of interesting study 
