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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atearchitectural features in the garden. Sir Edwins taskwas to provide a broad framework to be clothed, and thishe did well. The garden enclosure has been divided intothree sections at different levels; the two lower are little elsethan stretches of unbroken turf, but that which lies directlyin front of the south side of the house is treated in more 74 Lutyens Houses and Gardens 52.—Little Thakeham : The Hall and Screen. detail. A portion, the length of the central block of thehouse, is laid out in flagged paths framing square and oblongbeds. Beyond the east wing the building continues, some-what recessed, as the office annexe. In front of this abroad stairway (Fig. 53), divided into three by platformson which stand tubs of flowers, descends to a set of oblongwater-pools, set round with flagging, in which nymphseas,arums, Iris Kaempferi and other water-loving subjectsdisport themselves. One pool has deep water, and the othertwo are kept rather in the state of morass in order to meet
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53-—Lily Pool and Iris Morass at Little Thakeham. 75 j6 Sun-trap Planning the varying requirements of their denizens. Two flatstretches of lawn, merely broken by plant-clothed dry walls,would have been an arrangement too lacking in incidentto afford adequate support to the house. A strong featurewas needed to carry something of an architectural feelingforward to the garden boundary, and a pergola was chosenfor this purpose (Fig. 51). Something of presence and soliditywas called for, and this effect was attained by setting massiveoak beams, squared and slightly cambered, on to stonepillars of large diameter built up out of local stone roughlvhewn and faced. Even this would have been quite inade-quate without its being set up on a platform and dignifiedby great stairways. The lie of the ground not onlypermitted but suggested this. I turn now to another house in which exteriors treatedin a simple gabled fashion have been combined with interiorelements of a richer and more dignified sor

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