COOMBE WARREN, KINGSTON, ENGLAND.—GARDEN FRONT. THE LATE MR. GEORGE DEVEY, ARCHITECT.
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COOMBE WARREN, KINGSTON, ENGLAND.—ENTRANCE FRONT. THE LATE MR. GEORGE DEVEY, ARCHITECT.
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A GENTLEMAN’S COUNTRY HOUSE. MR. HORACE R. APPELBEE, ARCHITECT.
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This design is founded upon the Francis I style of architecture, though it by no means slavishly follows it. It was required to obtain a house suited in all respects to modern requirements, including such things as sash-windows, and in places plate-glass. These hardly harmonize with the ordinary character of English country-houses of the Elizabethan and Queen Anne types, with their many mullioned windows and lead-glazed casements, nor is the other extreme of heavy Classic with ponderous detail and a portico two stories high at all desirable. The style of Francis I offers a mean between these, giving emphasis to the principal block by a certain amount of symmetrical planning, together with picturesqueness, with rich and refined detail, which a gentleman’s country-house certainly requires. The exterior would be of long and thin red bricks, with stone cornices and other dressings, and roofed with green slates. The interior has oak-work and enriched plaster ceilings to the principal rooms, with the exception of the hall, where the ceiling would be of oak. The hall and the staircase would have some stained-glass in the windows. The original drawing was exhibited in this year’s Academy.
WROUGHT-IRON GATES, DUKE STREET, CHELMSFORD, ENGLAND.
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HISTORICAL FIGURES FROM LORD MAYOR’S PROCESSION, 1889. DESIGNED BY MR. JOHN JELLICOE.