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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112.—Plans of Nashdom. Nashdom 159
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113.—A Wind Dial. that the compass lettering on the outer ring serves to markboth the direction of the wind and the position of thesurrounding landmarks. The mechanism of the pointeris simple. A small additional flue is provided in the chimney,down which runs a rod connected by cogwheels both withthe weather-cock outside and the pointer on the dial. At the south corner of the house the ground drops suddenly,and has given opportunity for a retaining wall and greatstairway, devised with a fine realization of the possibilitiesof the site (Fig. 114). There is a largeness of idea in thetreatment of the stairway, which is altogether admirable.Laid out without any artfulness of curve, it relies whollyon the masculine-disposition of its platforms and walls, and 160 Coventry Patmore on Originality the white mass of brickwork seems to furnish the house withan inviolable buttress. To most observers it will appear that Nashdom is investedwith the quality which, for want of a better name, is kno

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