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 58
common.At first sight this looks like some early thirteenth century workinserted in the more modern building,but a closer inspection reveals the handi-work of the seventeenth century village,craftsman. In the Stroud district a favourite formwas the round cut out of one piece ofsquare stone, as at… … FIG. 42. GABLE OPENING,TOP FARM, BROADWAY. either sunk or raised, were very popular,and were generally placed over the door-way and sometimes worked in the actuallintol itself. These tablets, generally of the seven-teenth and eighteenth centuries, in someform or other, either enriched or plain,are…
Architecture, Domestic · Stone houses
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