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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
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he east. In order to give access from this passage to theupper level of the new quadrangular block an importantstaircase of stone (Fig. 96) was built in the south-westcorner of the latter. In the result the two buildings, oldand new, are unconnected at the first-floor level, and thecastle stands free to tell its own story. The determinationto prevent the new roofs dominating the old meant carvinga substantial piece out of the hill-side. Among other causes obstructing the work was the absenceon the island of any materials save stone and sea-sand. Allother necessaries had to be brought by sailing boats, alwaysa laborious and sometimes a risky process. In the building ofthe new wing and of the extensive range of garden walls, ad-vantage was taken of the stone that the island affords, a splen-did blue-green porphyry, shot with feldspar crystals. As thisis rather refractory to work, the mullions and other dressingsare of a cool blue-grey limestone that came from Skerries. Lambay Castle 133
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94.—Lambay Castle : In the New Kitchen Court. 134 Lutyens Houses and Gardens The new roofs are also covered with grey pantiles and thesides of the dormers are hung with flat tiles of the samecolour. Very wisely Sir Edwin made no attempt to repro-duce in the new block such characteristics of the old as thecrow-step gables that are so dehghtful a feature of thecastle. Moreover, in the necessary rebuilding of the north-east front he has not hesitated to mark its newness andrelate it to the new wing by hipping the roof of the smallcorner bay and by parapetting the larger one. It isespecially to be noted that only on this north-east fronthas the symmetrical plan of the old castle been disturbed.Alterations had been made there, before the present owner-ship, of so drastic a character that a restoration of the oldplan would have been insincere. This abundantly justifiesthe new tower which adds greatly to the accommodationon both floors. The new wing is kept low and markedlydomestic in char

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