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FROM THE SOUTH 
GLENCOT 
Its general character, as one approaches it, 
appears rather low and rambling, and yet one 
is agreeably surprised at the garden front, 
which towers above one with the added height 
of another story and with terraces below. 
On the front the house is of the long and low 
type so usual in England ; but on the garden 
side, this being impossible, the height is 
actually accentuated and made the most of 
The comparatively narrow bays rising to the 
full height of the house emphasize all the 
perpendicular lines and echo the note given 
by the splendid Italian cypress which some 
bygone owner planted on the riverside 
below. Here is a characteristic mark of Mr. 
George’s attitude in designing. I remember 
his once saying to me that if a problem 
seemed to call for long low lines he tried in 
every way to emphasize this quality, and that 
if perpendicular lines were the keynote of 
the composition then he forced this point and 
made the most ol it. 
In the plan of Glencot here published no 
attempt has been made to give more than 
the immediate surroundings ol the house. 
The stable and other outbuildings are very 
interesting but they must be omitted now. 
In some ways the general layout here is not on 
the lines of the older English places, which are 
invariably subdivided, and one finds fore¬ 
court, enclosed gardens, enclosed kitchen- 
garden, enclosed kitchen-yard and enclosed 
stable-yard all brought together as a homo¬ 
geneous whole. At Glencot, however, we 
have a plan more like the layout familiar to 
us here in America, for the forecourt is the 
only enclosed portion ol the place; else¬ 
where all is open and less defined. 
As it has already been said the upper 
entrance is the only one in general use, and 
this leads to the enclosed forecourt. Here 
high walls cut one off from the public road 
and lower walls insure a still more complete 
privacy—an absolute essential of an English 
house. No Englishman is willing to have 
either his house or his grounds overlooked ; 
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