The Textbook of Architecture

The Cabinet of Models

A cottage group

Arts and Crafts cottages built as one group under one long tiled roof, with half-timbered forward gables, leaded casements, door hoods, tall chimneys and front gardens behind hedges. This was the unit of Unwin’s and Parker’s garden cities.

A cottage group Open in Models ↗

Illustrates: Arts and Crafts

The rules it illustrates

Twelve houses to the acre. Build no more than about twelve houses to the acre, in groups rather than endless rows, each with a front garden and a long back garden; the saving on roads pays for the extra land.

Where it appears in the book

In the styles Edwardian.