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House & Garden 
It Beautifies, It Protects 
It Lasts for Years 
T O the fine old home that shows the 
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The fireplace in 
the north room 
shows interest¬ 
ing carved de¬ 
tail 
A Remodeled House in the Cotswolds 
(Continued from page 53) 
served. This item is extremely impor¬ 
tant, for upon the nature of the glazing 
depends much of the character of the 
whole composition. Seen from within, 
the lines of the leading give the window 
openings a pleasing pattern without in¬ 
terfering with the vision. Seen from 
without, they materially aid the eye in 
carrying on a sense of the continuity of 
the wall texture, which large panes of 
glass would only unpleasantly interrupt 
and mar. 
The mullions and trims of the win¬ 
dows are of exactly the same stone as 
the walls and this, again, assists in pre¬ 
serving the general harmony of effect. 
Other details worthy of special examina¬ 
tion are the doorway-—which is one of 
the finest in the Cotswolds—the little 
pierced finial atop the small gable in 
the jog of the road front, and the fire¬ 
place shown in one of the illustrations. 
The doorway presents an admirable 
instance of the fusion of style influences 
that often produced excellent results. 
The four-centred arch, with its rosetted 
and laureled spandrels, and the label¬ 
shaped dripstone with returned ends, 
are reminiscent of Tudor Gothic, while 
the form of some of the moldings and 
the little dentil course beneath the drip¬ 
stone bespeak incipient Renaissance 
tendencies. The same fusion of style 
currents may be seen in the fireplace. 
The little pierced finial deserves a word 
in passing for it is typical 
of a delightful method of 
ornament common in the 
Cotswolds. The masons 
played with these finials 
and used them as one 
means of imparting diver¬ 
sity and interest, giving 
withal a certain blithesome¬ 
ness without any of the 
conscious levity one some¬ 
times sees indulged in now¬ 
adays for the same intent. 
Considered in all its 
aspects, Orchard Farm is a 
satisfying embodiment of 
architectural seemliness. 
The small gable with a pierced finial is 
a portion of the house facing the road. 
To the right is the house door 
beneath the dripstone, where the range 
of casements has since been replaced. 
The wholly new part of the fabric is 
the low wing at the left, set back from 
the road and parallel with the main 
body of the house. This addition ac¬ 
commodates the kitchen, pantry, ser¬ 
vants’ hall and servants’ bedrooms. 
The building of this wing made it 
possible to convert what was formerly 
the kitchen into a dining room (the 
room with the two mullioned windows 
facing on the road, to the left of the 
house door) and make the erstwhile 
living room (the part with one window 
to the right of the house door) into a 
spacious hall. This metamorphosis of 
living room into hall showed an appre¬ 
ciation of dignified convenience and 
comfort, and concurrently a refreshing 
disregard of the “efficiency fallacy”— 
that troublesome mania which so often 
possesses the ultra-modern, prompting 
him to abhor what he calls “waste 
room,” and urging him to exact a 
visibly “practical” service from every 
Cubic inch of space, until all sense of 
dignity befitting a gentleman’s home is 
compromised and one’s comfort im¬ 
periled. 
The inside oaken shutters in the hall 
are modern, and the leaded glass in 
the casements is of recent introduction, 
but in this bit of restoration old Cots- 
wold precedent was punctiliously ob- 
