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Instead of a typical arched limestone entry porch, Good designed a row of oak columns.
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The familiar Tudor arch, like a flattened Gothic arch, appears throughout the house on door surrounds such as these. Rich oak paneling, often in a linenfold pattern, is also a Tudor trademark.
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The moment it was completed, the house was an instant classic, one that neither slavishly copied the older forms nor strayed too far from them. An encyclopedia of Tudor elements, the house features towering chimney stacks, intersecting gables, diamond-paned bays, mullioned windows, half-timbered walls, stone walls, and even a charming gable end with nogging (bricks stacked between timbers) above the entry porch.
But Good also added his own twists. Inspired by the scalloped legs of an antique English pub table, he designed a cluster of massive solid-oak columns for the entry and commissioned a decoy-maker from the Eastern Shore to carve the oak-leaf-and-acorn relief above the arch. Good characterizes the house as primarily American Tudor. It is more formal than the 16th-century English houses, which "often began as tiny buildings and grew over time," he says. "They have idiosyncratic little windows and doors. That's what gives them charm." To complement the architecture, the Roggios took four trips to England searching
for authentic furnishings. "We shipped back several containers full of antique
fireplace surrounds, cabinets, and even an entire room of Tudor-style linenfold
paneling that was once part of an English country house," recalls Bob. "We wanted
this house to look like it had been here for a long time."
| TUDOR TRADEMARKS |
| Half-timbering is timber framing with stucco
infilling. In America, it is almost always decorative, not structural, a
technique known as sham timbering. Surprisingly, only about half of the
Tudor Revival houses in America feature half-timbering. |
| Chimneys often feature a cluster of individual
flues that tower above the roofline. Decorative chimney pots may be placed
atop each flue. |
| Arches are flattened and pointed. They are
often found on entry porches and on door surrounds. |
| Windows are typically tall casements (although
double-hung windows appear too), with wood, metal, or stone mullions. Leaded
diamond panes are also common. |
| Other features include steeply pitched roofs,
front-facing gables, wood-paneled interiors, and ornately plastered (parged)
ceilings. |
RESOURCES: Architecture by Wayne Good, Good Architecture, 132 West St.,
Ste. A, Annapolis, MD, 410/268-7414; Tudor Style: Tudor Revival Houses in America
from 1890 to the Present, by Lee Goff, photographed by Paul Rocheleau, Universe
Publishing, 2002; landscape architecture by Stratton Semmes, Stratton Semmes
Landscape Architecture, 410/507-1926; builder, Smith & Orwig Builders,
Chestertown, MD.
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