Geometric Half-Timbered Frames
This image looks at some attractive geometric detail on the front of a half-timbered cottage on Queen Mary's Drive, Port Sunlight. Each of Nos 16-22 was a four-bedroom residence. This detail on No. 22 is part of a bracket-supported double-jettied gable. The rather cobwebbed pegs visible on the black-painted wooden frames are part of the construction process. The buildings face the Lady Lever Art Gallery.
Designed by James Lomax-Simpson in 1912, and built the following year, it is one of the Domestic Revival (or Old English) designs found throughout the village for which he is best known. Educated at Liverpool University and the son of a friend of of William Lever, he became the head of Lever Brothers architecture department in 1910 and designed several buildings in Port Sunlight including the Bandstand (now demolished), the Residents' Club, the south wing of Lever House, the Duke of York Cottages and houses in Jubilee Crescent, King George's Drive and Windy Bank as well as those in Queen Mary's Drive.
He also designed factories built overseas for Lever Brothers and Unilever House in London (Unilever was created in 1929 when Lever Brothers merged with the Dutch company Margarine Union).
Geometric Half-Timbered Frames
This image looks at some attractive geometric detail on the front of a half-timbered cottage on Queen Mary's Drive, Port Sunlight. Each of Nos 16-22 was a four-bedroom residence. This detail on No. 22 is part of a bracket-supported double-jettied gable. The rather cobwebbed pegs visible on the black-painted wooden frames are part of the construction process. The buildings face the Lady Lever Art Gallery.
Designed by James Lomax-Simpson in 1912, and built the following year, it is one of the Domestic Revival (or Old English) designs found throughout the village for which he is best known. Educated at Liverpool University and the son of a friend of of William Lever, he became the head of Lever Brothers architecture department in 1910 and designed several buildings in Port Sunlight including the Bandstand (now demolished), the Residents' Club, the south wing of Lever House, the Duke of York Cottages and houses in Jubilee Crescent, King George's Drive and Windy Bank as well as those in Queen Mary's Drive.
He also designed factories built overseas for Lever Brothers and Unilever House in London (Unilever was created in 1929 when Lever Brothers merged with the Dutch company Margarine Union).