Ross is planning WHAT????????
In 2019 I did a very long post on the carriage house. To appreciate what I am posting here it would be ideal if you…with wine in hand, dahlink…read the 2019 post.
Today. The NW corner. In 1894 this corner had a roofed porch. I confirmed this in 2019 and did a sketch of what the lost porch might have looked like. I thought I posted this for y’all to enjoy. However, yesterday I realized that I never posted the drawing. BAD Ross! Wanna see it? Scroll way down…
My plan. Updated today. The single column will exactly match the columns on the Cross House, and with a stone base. The lower sash of the dormer window will vanish (the dormers are not original). Note the small diamond window, and the large window under the turret. Both are original to the circa-1921 conversion of the structure but relocated.
An unfinished formal drawing from 2019. The large window to the left will be moved to under the turret. In place of the large window is the newly installed small diamond window. Note how the porch roofline repeats the angle of the main roof, and the angle of the west and north dormers. Is this what the 1894 porch roof looked like? I LOVE THIS.
The new porch will have a single column, stone plinth, and matching railing. The huge curved cornice will not repeat (as I have no way to recreate this).
I have no plans to build the roof soon. But…in a year or two?
I will likely though build the porch deck and move the entry this year.
Ross excited.
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Too bad about the cornice. But I expect something surprising and exciting to happen just as you are about to start work on this particular restoration. I don’t think the Carriage House has to have a huge ornate curved cornice either as it is a simpler, humbler building.
I think moving the front door and building the porch deck and steps will go a long way to revealing the future of the Carriage House and also make it a lot easier for you to work. It all looks as it was intended or used to be, whether it actually was or not.
Great plan! The turret really needed that emphasis of that cottage window underneath it, with the door moving walls, and the roofline scheme is really awesome. I can’t wait to see it!
With the addition of the porch roof, I wonder if it was necessary to line up the new small window with the dormer window. The planned shortening of the dormer window and the insertion of the porch roof will probably remove any axis between the two. But, as long as you’re happy… Speaking of which…Looking at the plan to move the large window under the turret will mess with the current symmetry of the 3 front windows as drawn. I’m sure it makes sense from the inside. Who doesn’t want an entry flooded with light? But, I wonder if a certain gentleman we
all know and love will be happy with the asymmetry of the new front window plan.
Hi David!
“The 3 front windows as drawn” is just that, a drawing. The window under the turret would be new.
I think moving the large window (and it leaded-glass over panel) will look great undertone current. I think the eye will read the two as a unit, creating a nice verbal accent.
Also, nothing about the facade is symmetrical! And I love asymmetry!
Makes perfect sense!
Hello everybody.
I posted this late last night and when I woke this morning I thought there would be like a dozen comments.
I assumed the comments would range from:
THIS IS BRILLIANT!
THIS IS AWFUL!
But…I woke to a single comment. Later, two more came though.
I’m worried. Have most of you been kidnapped by aliens?
I do like your drawing and I am always intrigued behind your philosophy and process in how you decide to restore. Being someone who is going into the study of historic preservation, that is interesting to me. I’m not sure how I feel about the fact that the original Squires porch is gone- which removes the building a little bit from the context of it being a remix and remaster of two former outbuildings, rebuilt and mashed together into a slurry of a new style. You can clearly see the difference in the foundation blocks, and which were meant to be covered by a porch at present.
But being that you had to condemn the old rotten porch, I like the alternative you developed for what it is. But something in me still mourns the old one.
Not sure about the rest but I was up all night watching the coronation live.
It was also the Derby today, but I don’t follow that.
I’m loving this Ross 🙂 the ability to change and shift has saved the Cross house et al countless times and this really honours the original while adjusting to current needs. I think the vision has been preserved. And I think a certain architect would be rather pleased! Bravo!
PS, I’m also LOVING all the posting as of late, my greedy heart rejoices!
Are nixing the shed-style dormer over the stairhall, and similarly bisecting the front-facing window in the upstairs front bedroom as is necessary to incorporate the porch roof with the window in the master bedroom still in the plans?
Getting rid of all the “interruptions” in the main façade would really allow the horizontal lines to stand prominently.
Are nixing the shed-style dormer over the stairhall, and similarly bisecting the front-facing window in the upstairs front bedroom
Yes. And yes! Just not soon, Cody.