Birchington House, Little Common, Bexhill-on-Sea, Sussex

The third of Mr. Morley-Horder's houses shown here is a commodious house situated on a fine site at Bexhill-on-Sea, with a splendid view of the sea. The house, unusually long in plan, is arranged so that all the rooms face south, with a long corridor on the north. The rooms are large, and the house was built with a view of entertaining guests during the summer, especially during the cricket week. The long playroom (46 feet by 19 feet) at the western end of the house, which opens on to the verandah, is an unusual adjunct to a house of this type. This room is used for small dramatic performances, and it will be noted that there is an outside approach with lavatories and small retiring room in connection with it. There was a small weather-boarded farmhouse on the site, and this has been retained and connected up to the house as a servants' wing, the little enclosed garden of this being retained for the servants' use also. The dining-room is conveniently arranged next to the cottage annexe, with a good service corridor both to this and the front entrance. The house generally has been fitted up with an eye to comfort rather than lavishness in detail, and the accommodation in the way of baths and lavatories is unusually adequate. The walls are built with grey local bricks with red dressings, and the roof is covered with local red tiles. The wood frames of windows have lead lights and iron casements. The simplicity of planning and roofing has produced a very economical and yet substantial house. [Studio Yearbook 1909 Page 209-211]

Reference    The Studio Yearbook of Decorative Art 1908 page B79 – dining room
Reference    Studio Yearbook 1909 Page 209-211