House and Garden 
some of the choicest bits of Southern Eng¬ 
land, and not the least beautiful is the down- 
land country which, covering nearly the 
whole of Wiltshire, laps over that part of 
Hampshire where the subject of this article 
is situated. Midway between Basingstoke 
and Andover the wayfarer will come upon 
this large white house, not hidden away in 
copse or hollow, but boldly abutting on the 
road and compelling his attention by the 
lute dignity and absolute homeliness, those 
qualities which so consistently associated 
themselves with English domestic archi¬ 
tecture from William of Wykeham to Sir 
Christopher Wren and which an artist like 
Mr. Lutyens can convey to his work today. 
For a detailed examination he must pass 
through the gatehouse and up the lime-girt 
avenue to the large walled forecourt measur¬ 
ing nearly eighty feet in each direction and 
THE GARDEN FRONT OF THE HOETSE 
novel character of its outbuildings. These 
line the turnpike for a length of one hun¬ 
dred and thirty yards and, with the little 
round turrets guarding the entrance gate and 
the general air of enclosure, whet the appe¬ 
tite for further investigation. 
When the gates are opened let him step 
back into the roadway and survey the pic¬ 
ture. Here is absence of effort indeed : the 
simplest possible materials yet withal abso- 
bordering the whole north front of the house. 
Lombardy poplars stand four square in this 
court, and on its high white roughcasted 
walls fig trees are trained. West of the 
court are the vegetable gardens, walled also, 
and to the east are the drying grounds and 
kitchen yards and the circular horse-track, 
for pumping water from the wells, with 
its enclosing hedge of clipped hornbeam. 
The house itself is in a simple scheme of 
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