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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
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o 00 122 Three Altered Houses
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87. WlTTERSHAM HOUSE \ FROM THE GARDEN. between them which are occupied by leaden boys bearingbaskets. Old vases are set at the corners of the pavedspace, and the table, chairs and benches are of the simpleheavy sort which is fitting out of doors (Fig. 86). Wharton Manor, Northumberland, shows that there isno more searching test of an architects ingenuity than hisalteration of old buildings to make them suit new uses.The difficult conditions imposed often exhibit him in thelight of a good man struggling with adversity. The mereaddition of two or three rooms may raise problems whichsorely tax his invention ; but the case of Whalton Manorwas far more complex, for it involved the welding togetherof the side of a village street into one house. Originallythe rooms to the right of the new archway (Fig. 91) were twohouses which had been thrown into one, with the addition ofthe wing of kitchen offices running northwards. This was thestate of the house when Sir Edwin was called in to enlarge W

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