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 69
nize so admir-ably, and seem almost to grow from the walls supportingthem. When old and covered with lichens their colour is inde-scribably exquisite, and seen in their proper setting amidst treesand fields the general tone of silver grey harmonizes admirablywith the surrounding landscape. Even… … FIG. 63. PIGEON HOLES IN THE WALL,STOW-ON-THE-WOLD. IN THE COTSWOLD! DISTRICT 51 galvanised iron, are now becoming common. Both materials aredoubtless good in themselves, but they are out of all harmonywith the buildiilgs, and do not in any way blend with them.Such foreign rnaterials possibly have…
Architecture, Domestic · Stone houses
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