House and Garden 
roughcast and red roof. The tiles are from 
some forty-odd old cottages which railroad 
expansion at Southampton had doomed to 
destruction, for though proud never to 
have pulled down any old building, not 
even a shed, for the sake of its material, 
Mr. Lutyens is not averse to utilizing a 
stack of old tiles when he can lay his hands 
upon it. The external woodwork is all of 
oak, and the small amount of exposed brick¬ 
work which occurs in the chimneys is prop¬ 
erly brought into harmony with the old roof 
covering. 
The principal rooms on the south side 
open on a sunk terrace, paved with old Lon¬ 
don paving stones and enclosed by dry earth 
walls covered with stonecrop and other saxi¬ 
frages. Four rose plots fill a compartment 
of this terrace from which access is to be had 
to the lawn by a flight of four steps flanked 
by Montelupo jars. Across the lawn and 
axial with these steps is a fine old oak tree 
enclosed in a semicircle of yew hedging and 
beyond again is a wild garden with paths 
radiating from a central cedar of Lebanon. 
The borders are full of broom, cotoneasters, 
guelder-rose and other flowering shrubs. 
Bounding this garden on the north and the 
lawn on the east is a large enclosure sur¬ 
rounded by yew hedges—a plain stretch of 
A GARDEN ARCH 
THE WESTERN LAWN 
