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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19.—Munstead Wood : Paved Court and Steps on North Side. The house itself is built of the local stone, with a slightuse of half-timber in the outer wall on the north side. Greatplay is made indoors with heavy oak beams, especially inthe fine corridor on the first floor. The disposition of theworkroom, bookroom, dining-room, etc., is clearly shownon the ground-floor plan (Fig. 17), and need not, therefore,to be described in detail. Some visitors to Munstead Wood Window Treatment 35 have criticized the house on the ground that the windowsare too small and the rooms consequently not light enough.That might be a reasonable criticism if the wishes of theowner had not been taken into account, but the house isthe result of a perfect understanding between architectand client as to the sort of house to be built and its treat-ment. If the light is subdued in some rooms it is preciselybecause that was desired.
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20.—The Tank at Munstead Wood. 36 Development of Traditional Manner CHAPTER IIITHREE SURREY HOUSES OF 1899 Orchards, Godalming—A Cloistered Quadrangle—Tiles used forWall-building—Goddards, Abinger Common—Tigbourne Court,Witley. THIS chapter illustrates three more Surrey houses in thetraditional manner which show Sir Edwin at the pointwhen he had abandoned the pursuit of the picturesque,and consequently achieved it in a more convincing fashion.Orchards was begun in 1899 for Sir William Chance—it has since changed hands—and took about three yearsto build. It is set on a wooded table-land, richly clothedwith oak and fir and silver birch, to the east of Godalmingtown. Both the house and its garden show a greater facilityin the handling of materials, and a readiness to let the massand 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

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