Identifier: lutyenshousesga00weav (find matches)
Title: Lutyens houses and gardens
Year: 1921 (1920s)
Authors: Weaver, Lawrence, 1876-1930
Subjects: Lutyens, Edwin Landseer, Sir, 1869-1944 Architecture, Domestic Gardens
Publisher: London, Offices of "Country life", ltd. (etc.) New York, C. Scribner's Sons
Contributing Library: University of Connecticut Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: LYRASIS Members and Sloan Foundation

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and outlines of the building develop a natural rather thana contrived picturesqueness. The grouping of the housewith its attendant and attached offices and walled gardensshow the same spirit as that which animated the sixteenth-century Englishman when he built, in native style, a housein which to dwell in native manner. The plan shows(Fig. 22) that as we approach the entrance to the courtyard,we have on our left the stable building. In front is theopening through the north side of the court which admitsto a quadrangle, with inhabited buildings on three sides andon the fourth a cloister (Fig. 21) . This connects the housewith a studio, which was used by Lady Chance for herdelightful essays in garden sculpture. The material chieflyused for the walls is the small-sized yellow rubble-stone ofthe district; but above the windows and in many of thearchways lines of red roofing tiles are built in. The gardenpiers and other architectural details are also done in the same Orchards, Godalming 37
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