Picturesque English cottages and their doorway gardens (1905)
Ditchfield, P. H. (Peter Hampson), 1854-1930 · Philadelphia : J.C. Winston · leaf 111
ht posts with their projecting brackets,and the ends of the girders and joists, stand-ing out and supporting the upright quarteredsides of the upper storey. The spaces are filled with bricksplaced herring-bone wise. Whenyou enter theshop, you willnotice the greatdiagonal beamwith the joistsframed… … COTTAGES AT CALBORNE building with anxious care; guard it as bestyou may, and at any cost from any influenceof dilapidation. Count its stones as youwould the jewels of a crown. Set watchersabout it, as if at the gate of a besieged city;bind it together with iron when it loosens.Stay it with timber…
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