Lane-Poole, Stanley, 1854-1931 · London : Chapman and Hall · leaf 106
they were offive stories—and are built of stone on the ground floor (col-oured in alternate red and white courses with red ochre andlimewash), and of brick tied with wood and coated with whiteplaster on the upper stories. The doors are often very tastefullyornamented (fig. n); but there the… … FIG II.—DOORWAY OF A PRIVATE HOUSE. (From a Sketch by J. W. Wild.) 80 ART OF THE SARACENS. upper stories are commonly small and plain, and arranged withno regard to symmetry, though there are still some examplesof streets where the higher floors of the houses are furnishedwith richly-ornamented…
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