Picturesque English cottages and their doorway gardens (1905)
Ditchfield, P. H. (Peter Hampson), 1854-1930 · Philadelphia : J.C. Winston · leaf 31
ne fashion, like the stones of Saxon shrink. Hence the joints came apart, andbeing exposed to the weather became decayed.In consequence of this the buildings settled,and new methods had to be devised in orderto make them weather-proof The villagerstherefore adopted two or three means inorder to… … A ROADSIDE COTTAGE AT PULBOROUGH Methods of Construction or they covered them with dealboarding, or hung them withtiles. In Surrey, tile-hunghouses are more common thanin any other part of the coun-try. This use of weather-tilesis not very ancient, probablynot earlier than 1750, andmuch of this…
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