Small, elegant house
Sir: Auberon Waugh ends his review Trying to be funny' (Books, 10 Novem- ber) by thanking God for the Daily Tele- raPh, to which may I add the Spectator. Roth, after all, have the sense to employ not only Nicholas Garland but a number of Other splendid contributors including your architectural correspondent. It is refresh- ing that both Gavin Stamp and Dr Robin- son, the author of The Latest Country ouses reviewed by Gavin Stamp in the same issue, are publicising an aspect of s....,architecture which has been attacked since
the war, not least by those who have perpe- trated and/or praised some of the worst architectural blunders of this, or any other, century.
Some years ago my own partnership came under attack when a house we designed was photographed, half-finished, and publicised in the 'Outrage' section of the Architectural Review. By chance I recently came across the following descrip- tion of this house in Pevsner's Buildings of England for Oxfordshire: 'A small, elegant house of c.1720 [sic]. Stuccoed facade with keystoned windows and a panelled parapet.'
Alan Gore
Horn House, Horn Green, Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire
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