House and Garden 
Vol. VI 
October, 1904 
No. 4 
BERRYDOWN COURT 
The Residence of Martin H. Pirie, Esq., Hampshire, England 
Designed by Edwin L. Lutyens, Architect 
W ERE it incumbent upon the traveler 
to resort again to the methods of pre¬ 
railroad days and rumble about England in 
the mail coaches his grandfathers used, he 
would find that the old routes, save perhaps 
where their path lies through the larger 
towns, had altered but little. The country¬ 
side in its general surroundings is much the 
same as it ever was, and, though much of 
the glory of the old inns is departed, their 
fabrics remain and the villages that surround 
them present to one still the same bucolic 
comfort and stolidity which was then and is 
now their principal charm. The most im¬ 
portant change which would strike the in¬ 
quiring wayfarer is the presence of larger 
numbers of residents who do not, strictly 
speaking, belong to the agricultural class, 
but who have steadily settled down in nearly 
every district, where formerly none repre¬ 
sented them but the parson and the squire. 
The Exeter road taking its way south- 
westwards from London through Surrey, 
Hampshire, Wilts and Dorset runs through 
looking across the forecourt from the front door 
Copyright, IQ04, —Henry T. Coates & Co. 
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