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Honeycomb housing is an urban planning model pertaining to residential subdivision design.. The defining hexagonal tessellation, or "honeycomb" pattern, consists of multiple housing clusters containing 5–16 houses and centered around a courtyard in a cul-de-sac arrangement at its smallest unit of organization.
Begun in 1937 and expanded over 25 years, this is the first and best example of Wright's innovative hexagonal design. [2] A Usonian home patterned after the honeycomb of a bee, the 3,570 square foot house incorporates six-sided figures with 120-degree angles in its plan, in its numerous tiled terraces, and even in built-in furnishings.
The village had a public house, the Reformation, which was controlled by the Brakspear brewery. In 2023, the brewery sold the pub garden for housing and the pub is to be turned into a veterinary surgery. [3] Antony Worrall Thompson was chef at an earlier public house in the village, the Greyhound, which closed in 2009. [4]
Bewley Common is a hamlet in Wiltshire, England.It lies in the civil parish of Lacock, west of Bowden Hill and about 1 mile (1.6 km) east of Lacock village.. Bewley Court is a Grade I listed manor house from the 14th century or early 15th.
The interior of the Rosenbaum House. Usonia (/ j uː ˈ s oʊ n i. ə /) is a term that was used by the American architect Frank Lloyd Wright to refer to the United States in general (in preference over America), and more specifically to his vision for the landscape of the country, including the planning of cities and the architecture of buildings.
Sir Harold Brakspear KCVO (10 March 1870 – 20 November 1934 [1]) was an English restoration architect and archaeologist. [ 2 ] He restored a number of ancient and notable buildings, including [ 2 ] Bath Abbey , Windsor Castle , Brownston House in Devizes and St Cyriac's Church in Lacock . [ 3 ]
Harold Brakspear's 1905 excavation discovered the layout of the monastery, including the church, infirmary and a dovecote. [5] Spye Arch in the 19th century. Its original entrance now forms the gateway to Spye Park and is known locally as Spye Arch. [6]
Nymans is an English garden to the east of the village of Handcross, and in the civil parish of Slaugham in West Sussex, England. The garden was developed, starting in the late nineteenth century, by three generations of the Messel family, and was brought to renown by Leonard Messel. In 1953 Nymans became a National Trust property. [1]