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 57
ve seen how a new era of cottage-building started inElizabeths time ; and it will be sufficient for our present purposeif we take that reign as a starting-point for a beginning of thestory of the humbler form of domestic architecture. We see thecottages to-day that often date their foundation from… … LIFE OF RURAL ENGLAND The commonest form of cottage of the better sort erectedduring the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries is that framedafter the model of the manor-house. Every one is familiar withthe story of the development of the English manor-house, astory that I have already told and need…
Architecture, Domestic · Villages
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