The cottages and the village life of rural England (1912)
Ditchfield, P. H. (Peter Hampson), 1854-1930, Quinton, A.R · London, J.M. Dent & sons ltd.; New York, E.P. Dutton & co. · leaf 142
resque dormers are seen in the sketch of GroombridgeCommon. In timber-framed houses it was not difficult to insert windowsin the spaces between the upright and the horizontal timberswherever light was wanted, instead of the wattle and daub thatfilled in the other interstices. The ingenious way in… … A BY-LANE AT HOUGHTON, SUSSEX Just beneath the Sussex Downs and the shade of Bury Hill isthe little village of Houghton. Houghton Forest was a region ofdense woods which supplied plentiful timber for the constructionof such cottages as these which stand in a by-lane, along whichperhaps Charles II.…
Architecture, Domestic · Villages
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