Picturesque English cottages and their doorway gardens (1905)
Ditchfield, P. H. (Peter Hampson), 1854-1930 · Philadelphia : J.C. Winston · leaf 29
s also aboundin Brittany and other parts ofFrance. These projectihouses are not earlier thathe time of Queen Eliza-beth or James I. Thosebuilt before that pe-riod do not project somuch. The house in itsfirst stage was a meretimber skeleton, anduntil the framing waswell advanced, had tobe propped… … OLD COTTAGES AT BOUGHTON-UNDER BLEAN, KENT dows or framing, the timbers of which weregenerally about 8 or 9 inches apart, and nearlyas much in width, the closeness of the tim-bering being one of the characteristics of earlywork; and it was not until later, when timberbecame more scarce, that they…
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