House Garden 
walk and elsewhere are of the humble though 
sturdy privet, almost the only hedge plant to 
thrive in London’s atmosphere, and are in¬ 
tended to grow to a height of six feet so as 
to entirely screen the occupants of each com¬ 
partment of the garden. 
A belt of trees, the full depth of the ten¬ 
nis lawn and composed chiefly of poplar and 
ash, serves, with the privet hedge adjacent, 
to cut off the vegetable garden from the rest, 
this small piece of wild garden with its thick 
undergrowth making a bold contrast to the 
formal manner which is dominant throughout. 
The house is simplicity itself, gray-brown 
South-country bricks, red dressings and gray¬ 
ish-yellow stone slates, white painted cornice 
and window woodwork keep company with the 
solitary though comfortable chimney-stack, 
which seems by its ample dimensions to lend 
a fatherly support to the whole. Within— 
the rooms are low in the ceiling, treated 
traditionally yet with freshness, and in their 
furnishings is displayed a loving appreciation 
of English eighteenth-century craftsmanship. 
That which has demanded artificial means 
for its production at Streatham, nature has 
freely supplied at Shooter’s Hill, for a more 
beautiful riverside situation could hardly be 
found. 11 was therefore fitter 
that the architectural effect 
should be obtained on wider 
lines and with materials less 
restrained in their color 
scheme. Here, then, are 
yellow plastered gables, a 
yellow-red roof and brilliant 
red brickwork, and in front 
of these the cool green of 
the turf and the cooler river. 
The two buildings taken 
together form an interesting 
example of the work of an 
architect to whom the fitness 
of things is apparently of 
very great consideration. 
M. B 
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