Residence In Dunedin

Progress, Volume X, Issue 3, 1 November 1914, Page 87

Residence In Dunedin

The residence illustrated on page 89 will be built with brick walls and partitions, the external walls being cement rough-casted and limewhitened, while the internal walls will be plastered with one coat of plaster brought to an approximately even surface, but with the trowel marks left showing. The sand for the plaster will be of a light straw colour and not too fine. The woodwork will be of Tasmanian Blackwood, hand-dressed, but not sandpapered.

There are no unusual features about the plan, but it will be noted that all the rooms except the kitchen will have the sun during some portion of the day, (the frontage to the street faces East), that the design is economical, there being the minimum of waste space, and that for convenience of working the rooms could hardly be better located. The elevations are of the usual English cottage type, devoid of all unnecessary features, and dependent on the simple disposition of the parts to give the effect obtained. The residence was designed by Mr. Leslie Coombs, architect, Dunedin.