House £s? Garden 
HIGH • WALLS • • GVLLA NE ■ • HAD!)/NO TONS HIRE • • ELL VTYENS■ ARCHT- 
phasizes the so¬ 
briety and breadth 
of the design and 
leaves the materials 
employed to exert 
to the full the influ¬ 
ence of their color 
and texture. The 
stone is from a local 
quarry, Rattlebags 
by name, and is of 
a greyish - yellow 
color, and laid with 
wide mortar joints. 
1'he pan-tiles are 
grey, of a soft sandy 
texture, and there 
are pro m i n e n t 
notes of the grey- 
green of Westmor¬ 
land slates, more 
especially on the 
south elevation. 
These slates have 
also been utilized 
in forming the sequential ramps and arches in 
the garden walls, and as a band of color under 
the eaves; and the garden steps throughout 
are of the same material. 
The effect of the whole is so subdued that 
the building seems endowed with an irre¬ 
sistible feeling of antiquity and this cri¬ 
terion of its artistic truthfulness, though a 
dangerous one to pursue in all cases, must 
here be taken as a sure testimony to the 
very undeniable excellence of Mr. Lutyens’ 
work. M. B. 
613 
