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 43
r stops and rosettes in the spandrils,but instead of the label there is quite a classical treatment ofarchitrave, frieze and cornice, all crudely detailed, but showinghow, in the doorways, the builders were attempting some freshtreatment in place of the old traditional types 24 OLD COTTAGES,… … A DOORWAY AT CRETTON, cornice over, as at Gretton inNorthamptonshire {see Fig. i8). Occasionally the doorwayswere sheltered with a projectingstone hood, on moulded brackets,as at Chalford Hill near Stroudand Lechlade, (Plates xli and Ix), and in Campden and Stow-on-the-Wold there is series in wood…
Architecture, Domestic · Stone houses
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