Glencot 
account of the country-loving habits of the 
English people, has received more attention 
in England than it has anywhere else. Mr. 
George stands easily in the tront rank of 
architects in this class of work. His city 
houses have a certain stamp of the artist, and 
his church work is individual and interesting, 
but his country 
houses are ab¬ 
solutely in 
touch with the 
best English 
precedent a n d 
in harmony 
with the best 
English taste. 
Mr. George 
himself be¬ 
longs to the 
class of archi¬ 
tects who put 
the personal 
touch into all 
that they do. 
There is no 
mingling of 
many styles in 
one building, 
nor is there any 
great variety of 
style in the va¬ 
rious kinds ot 
buildingswhich 
Mr. George has 
done. They are 
nearly all based 
on seventeenth 
and eighteenth 
century work, 
—for the most 
part English in 
character,— 
but with a trace 
o f Flemish i n 
the detail and 
handling; and 
through them all runs a personal note which 
is unmistakable. 
It is by no means a simple thing to build 
a house in a country rich with memorials ot 
a past generation, to keep to the character 
of older work and yet to be wholly modern 
in meeting the needs of the present day. 
Such a problem was to be solved at Glencot; 
and there was the added difficulty of a piece 
of ground extremely irregular in shape and 
contour and limited by a public road on 
one side and a stream on the other. Here, 
however, was undoubtedly the one possible 
spot for the house, and the difficulties of 
the situation 
have turned out 
to be just so 
many opportu¬ 
nities for effect. 
The house is 
placed close to 
the road, which 
here is hardly 
morethanalane 
and has neither 
the dust nor the 
noise of a high 
road. T h e 
entrance to the 
kitchen and 
offices is thus 
made very di¬ 
rectly. But the 
main entrance, 
thatistheupper 
road which 
comes from the 
direction of the 
village, enters 
at some little 
distance f r o m 
the house and 
so has room for 
a good drive 
before it comes, 
through a 
second pair of 
gates, into the 
forecourt. The 
lower drive, 
coming in on a 
lower level, 
leads directly to 
the terrace which is on what might be called 
a basement level, but it is more truly a 
ground floor. I his drive is seldom used, and 
seems indeed somewhat superfluous except 
in approaching the house from the south. 
The house itself is perched on the hillside ; 
the road is above it, the stream below. 
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