ABSTRACT
Merrist Wood is an English Victorian house, designed by Richard Norman Shaw, and built at Worplesdon in Surrey, in the mid-1870s.
I shall not look at every aspect of this house, nor even at the house as it was built, but at an early version of the floor plan of the house, for a comparison can be made between this and the floor plan of the Schminke House (Case Study Two) which illustrates some crucial differences between nineteenth-century and twentieth-century ‘Modern’ organisation of space.
