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Arts & Crafts: Asymmetry
Asymmetry is expressed through differing plan shapes and changing rooflines.
Red House, Bexleyheath, London
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NOTES: Philip Webb designed the building for his friend the artist William Morris, but Morris was responsible for the interior decoration.
Mary Ward Settlement (Passmore Edwards Settlement Buildings), Tavistock Place, London
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SOURCE: Building News, vol. 69, 1895 Aug. 9, after p. 208 NOTES: The Mary Ward Settlement (originally known as the Passmore Edwards Settlement Buildings) was founded in the 1890s by Mary Augusta Ward under the financial patronage of John Passmore Edwards. It aimed to provide facilities to 'improve the the religious, moral, intellectual or physical well-being of the people of London' and was also notable for housing the first fully equipped classrooms for children with disabilities.
Cragside, Rothbury, Northumberland: the entrance front
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NOTES: Cragside was the enlargement of a shooting lodge of 1864 into a large country house. The alterations took place in stages over the period 1869-1885.
First Church of Christ Scientist, Daisy Bank Road, Victoria Park, Manchester
RIBA5932
NOTES: The building, a Grade I listed building, is no longer a church.
Designs for a new house, Woodbrook, Alderley Edge, Cheshire, for Albert Heyworth, Esq.: ground plan and three elevations (design 1)
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NOTES: Neither of Voysey's designs for a new house were carried out. Instead he prepared and executed designs for alterations and additions to the existing house.