. The English house, how to judge its periods and styles. et and beautiful;and it will seem new when adapted to yourpresent-day needs, because your architect willput something of himself into his modernisedversion. Perhaps you may live in a district where localby-laws forbid you to build a weather-boardedhouse of the Kentish type, though it is goodand safe when constructed in a right in by-laws that affect architecture isa question of the hour ; and, happily, theLocal Government Board is alive to this forbid good methods and materials, whilesanctioning any amount of horrible
. The English house, how to judge its periods and styles. et and beautiful;and it will seem new when adapted to yourpresent-day needs, because your architect willput something of himself into his modernisedversion. Perhaps you may live in a district where localby-laws forbid you to build a weather-boardedhouse of the Kentish type, though it is goodand safe when constructed in a right in by-laws that affect architecture isa question of the hour ; and, happily, theLocal Government Board is alive to this forbid good methods and materials, whilesanctioning any amount of horrible jerry-labour,is Gilbertian irony in a tragic vein. Still, ifyou may not build a weather-boarded house,choose with care and judgment some otherfamiliar style, like the Cotswold ; it will notbe discordant in any country district, becauseEnglish landscape is English everywhere, likethe character in local types of cottage, andfarm, and manor-house. For all. that, your styleshould be chosen with your site when you gooutside your own neighbourhood for a type. Kentish Houses at Tonbridge. Reproduced by kind permission of Mr. B. T. Batsford, from Mr. E. Guy Dawbers book on Kent and Sussex. ARCHITECTS AND CLIENTS 309 of house. Grey stone may be too cold incolour for some places; and there is a kind ofnative afSnity between the wooded landscapesof Surrey or Sussex and the rich, tiled this matter your architect will help you ;but do not swerve from your determination tobe English. Your position is that of an editorwho wants a given subject put into anEnglish dialect, not into Anglo-Italian, norany other style that centuries of copying havebrought into Engjland as a free import. This choice of a style being settled, planscome in to disturb your peace, though theyseem at first to be simple things. Yourarchitect examines the site, measures it, noteswhere the trees grow, studies the landscape back-ground, and reminds you somehow of a goodchess-player face to face with a new prob
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