![]() From the 1890s to the 1920s, she practiced as a successful scholar, maintaining a studio in Kensington, London. The main function of the house however, was to provide a setting for Katherine Maltwood’s own sculpture works.Īrtist, antiquarian, scholar, collector and world-traveller, Katherine had been trained in London at the Slade School of Art. The Maltwoods were looking for a house reminiscent of a country house they had owned in Somerset, and compatible with their extensive collection of early English oak furniture and oriental antiques. In late 1940 the Inn was sold to recent English immigrants John and Katherine Maltwood. While briefly the after-hours haunt of newly recruited air force officers training at Pat Bay, unfortunately the Forrest’s business was unable to survive the strictures of wartime rationing and general austerity. Large brick fireplaces, a minstrel’s gallery and banks of leaded-glass windows are contained within the huge exposed “cruck” timber frame, a building technology which owes its origin to medieval barns and churches. He had worked with Victoria’s famed arts-and-crafts style architect Samuel Maclure and built numerous Oak Bay and Uplands residences.Ī dominant feature of the building is its large open hall, itself derivative of centuries of English building practice which originated in the hall-houses of the Tudor era. Savage was a good choice for an architect. ![]() The building nestled into the brow of hill, framed within an English dry-stone terraced rock garden, fruit orchards and Garry oaks. Victoria architect Hubert Savage provided designs for a large Tudor revival cottage, complete with thatched roof, eyebrow dormers, leaded windows, and massive masonry chimneys. ![]() The hill-top site afforded scenic vistas over the rolling farmlands of Saanich, but was also strategically positioned at the junction of the roads to Butchart Gardens and the new airport. OUR HISTORY The Forrests had recently arrived from Shanghai, and together with local partners Dave Burnett and Vera Levey, they envisaged an English-style tea and dance room overlooking Royal Oak village. ![]()
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