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Arts & Crafts: Clarity of Form and Construction
Simple and often bold shapes, which also reflect the internal arrangements.
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: the entrance facade
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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.
Cottages, Buscot, Oxfordshire, with date 1894 and initial AH in the gable
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NOTES: Buscot was a model village designed by George & Peto for the owner of Buscot Park, Alexander Henderson, a financier, engineer and amateur painter, who was created Baron Faringdon in 1916. The village included cottages, a forge and a community room (parish hall). The village was laid out between 1892-1897.
Waterlow Court, Hampstead Garden Suburb, London
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NOTES: This quadrangle was designed as cloistered housing for indigent women.
