Old cottages, farm-houses, and other stone buildings in the Cotswold district; examples of minor domestic architecture in Gloucestershire, Oxfordshire, Northants, Worcestershire, &c. (1905)
Dawber, E. Guy (Edward Guy), 1861-, Davie, W. Galsworthy. illus · London, B. T. Batsford · leaf 38
s of stone, laid directly on the earth, withthe result that the moisture readily soaked through, doubtless !causing the rooms to be wet and unhealthy, and as damp courseswere unknown when these houses were built the lower part of thewalls in winter time was moist and damp. This method of layingthe… … FIG. 8. FLOOR OF COTTAGEAT WESTON SUBEDGE. scented herbs were spread, but even thenthey must have been damp and dirty,and some idea of their state may begathered from the fact that the doorwayof the hall at Winchester was widenedto admit of carts coming in. This wasprobably the origin of the raised…
Architecture, Domestic · Stone houses
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