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 256
sunny day. It had diamond-paned lattice windows, large and grotesquely carved porch withhigh-backed settles. There was extensive stabling, then in ajuinous condition, and the house had formerly been a place ofimportance, the seat of some county family. It was a Tudorliouse. Queen Elizabeth had… … LIFE OF RURAL ENGLAND Dickens also describes another comfortable roadside inn onthe Marlborough Downs, where Tom Smart found comfort andrefreshment and, incidentally, a wife, one stormy evening whenthe cheerful lights of its windows attracted the cold and wearytraveller. It was a charming old house…
Architecture, Domestic · Villages
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