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| Starlock House, Rye. Photograph taken by Mr D Godden. |
Pevsner attributes this building to the ‘International Modern style’ – albeit an early example
Starlock was commissioned
as a home for her parents by designer and artist Marjorie Templer. Templer had already
previously written the book ‘Arts Decoratifs’ with Starlock’s architect [3] . At the time, the architect
– Frank Scarlett – had spent a year in the United States as a result of winning
the RIBA’s Alfred Blossom Travelling Studentship. Returning to London, he became
an assistant at the Bartlett School of Architecture in London. It was during his
collaboration with Henry Ingham Ashworth that Starlock house came about. In
1930 the Scarlett-Ashworth partnership won a competition to design Hull’s Civic
Centre [4] .
Reommended Photographs:
Recommended Reading:
[1]
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I. Nairn and N.
Pevsner, The Buildings Of England Sussex, 3rd ed., London: Penguin Books,
1965.
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[2]
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English Heritage,
“British Listed Buildings,” English Heritage, [Online]. Available:
http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-468783-starlock-rye-east-sussex.
[Accessed 05 01 2013].
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[3]
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R. A. Heaword,
“Obituary: Marjorie Townley,” The Independent, 20 02 1993.
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[4]
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Irish Architectural
Archive, “Dictionary of Irish Architects - Frank Scarlett,” Irish
Architectural Archive, 2013. [Online]. Available:
http://www.dia.ie/architects/view/4769. [Accessed 05 01 2013].
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