"The appropriation for a house should be divided into two equal parts, one-half for the house, the other for the gardens, pathways, court, approach, terrace and the rest of it, or, as it might be termed, one-half for the pudding, the other for the sauce." Architect Thomas Hastings
Note the missing grotesques.
ReplyDeleteI am sorry that the grotesques are gone.
ReplyDeleteI hope they were sold as individual pieces of art and not simply hacked off.
ReplyDeleteSince being relocated the cottage has lost it's "Hansel and Gretel" like fairytale appeal, but the workmanship of the chimneys is still magnificent.