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His mother 1897 “Morals and Civilisation” (Fortnightly Review), Man, Certain a lady’s maid, later a housekeeper; his father a The Plattner Story, The Invisible gardener, later a cricketer and shopkeeper Personal Matters, Thirty Strange Stories, The Star The Morley’s Commercial Academy, Bromley 1898 War of the Worlds Apprenticed to Rodgers and Denyer, drapers, 1899-1900 Spade House built at Sandgate, Kent; architect Windsor C.F.A. Voysey. When the Sleeper Wakes, Tales of Space With Samuel Cowap, chemist, Midhurst, Sussex and Time Love and Mr. (one month); Hyde’s Drapery Emporium, 1900 Lewisham Southsea (two years’ apprenticeship) 1gOl George Philip Wells born. The First Men in the Midhurst Grammar School (teaching scholar) Moon, Anticipations, A Dream of Armageddon 1902 Discovery of the Future (Royal Institution The Normal School (later Royal College) of The Science, South Kensington lecture), The Sea Lady Matriculated, London University 1903 Frank Richard Wells born. Joined the Fabian Making, The Food of the Taught at the Holt Academy, Wrexham, North Society. Mankind in the Wales Gods. Twelve Stories and a Dream, “The Land Henley House School, Kilburn, London Ironclads” (tank story, Strand Magazine) University Correspondence College (tutor) 1904 The Food of the Gods A Modern Utopia B.Sc. London University (First-Class in zoology, 1905 Kipps: The Story of a Simple Soul, Second in geology) 1906 First visit to America. In the Days of the Comet, The Future in America, Socialism Married his cousin Isabel Mary Wells. “The Faults of the Fabian, Rediscovery of the Unique” in Fortaightly Review and the Family (Fabian Sucic The So- Left his wife for Amy Catherine Robbins, one of 1907 This Misery of Boots his students. Textbook of Biology. Honours Physi- Called Science of Sociology ography (with R.A. Gregory) 1908 Resigned from the Fabian Society. First and Last Divorced. Married Amy Catherine Robbins. Things, New Worlds for Old, The War in the Air Published Select Conversations With an Uncle, The 1909 Moved to London from Sandgate. Tono-Bungay, Time Machine, The Stolen Bacillus, The Wonderful Ann Veronica: A Modern Love Story Visit 1910 The History of Mr. Polly 1911 The New Machiavelli, The Country of the Blind and note: This chronology has been compiled by the publishers for Other Stories, Floor Games (for children) the convenience of readers. 1912 Moved to Easton Glebe, Essex, but also kept a : Mater lS Penehaka te Lotro. National Portracl (al H.c Welle Arte} NPG So7| IES 20 AUGUST 2004 BRICKSANDMORTAR CRAFTY ART This simple Voysey house radiates star quality, says Marcus Binney HOLLY MOUNT is as perfect and with tiny handles in the form of complete an example of a small perfectly shaped dewdrops. Charles Voysey house as one can hope In an article in The English Home in to find, little altered since it was built. 1910 Voysey set out his views: “We Even the tall oak garden gate in its must shake off the fashionable freestanding frame remains — in a convention of obedience to style.” In fragile state admittedly. The slate place he set quality of “repose, paving stones are exactly as Voysey cheerfulness, simplicity, breadth, laid them, set three wide on the main warmth ... harmony with surroundings, garden path leading from the road. absence of dark passages or places, Over the door is the exquisitely lettered evenness of temperature”. Warm slate name plaque, carved with sprigs houses, he said, called for solid floors, of ivy and the date of completion. avoiding the presence of damp, cold Voysey liked to give his houses a air beneath. Fireplaces must be fed thick, enduring coat of harling to with air through small flues direct from ensure that they remained cosy and outside to avoid draughts under doors. warm in all weathers. Colour comes Voysey rooms have no cornices and from the warm golden stone with which only minimal skirtings. He abhorred he dressed the windows. It is smooth high ceilings: excessive height made and without blemishes or mouldings of rooms gloomy and narrower. “A any kind. The drip courses above the predominance of horizontalism in any windows, preventing the stone from room is conducive to repose.” staining, are formed of level rows of Holly Mount has a typical Voysey brick tiles with little skirt of render stair with tall, white-painted banisters above to throw off the rain. creating an effect like harp strings. On The front door is a delight — a large the first-floor landing the corner or 16-pane porthole under its own newel posts are continued up as hooped drip mould with the original columns with his typical flattened tiny letter-box. A Voysey signature is capitals at the top. Throughout, the the use of green-tinged Westmorland doors have latches and long roof slates, and here they are carefully blacksmith hinges running like arrows graded, becoming gradually larger as across the door. Another feature is the they descend the roof with a band of distinctive black cast-iron fireplaces, narrower slates just before the tall and narrow with tiny coal grates characteristic splay at the bottom. On and inbuilt shelves. In every room the the garden side — in another delightful ornamental ventilation grilles survive. In quirk — the rainwater gutter is carried some rooms are reproductions of across in front of the dormer windows Voysey wallpapers. supported on leggy iron brackets, like a miniature canal on an aqueduct. The house was built near Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, in 1907 for C. T. Burke and has since had only four owners. It is now on the market after 27 years at £1.5 million. Voysey was a rebel with a cause. He loved the simple domesticity of the The one major alteration is that two English cottage. He hated the rattle of extra bedrooms (making six in all) have sash windows and the accompanying been created in the attic with roof draughts. Here virtually every window is lights that sit awkwardly above a Voysey original — sturdily formed in Voysey's dormers. But the views over lead with a long latch that can be fixed the garden to the country beyond are in three positions — closed, wide open delightful. “We have covenants and a little less than halfway. 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