Picturesque English cottages and their doorway gardens (1905)
Ditchfield, P. H. (Peter Hampson), 1854-1930 · Philadelphia : J.C. Winston · leaf 75
ation necessitated the addition of otherchambers, a sleeping place for the lord andlady, the with-drawing-room (modern-ized to drawing-room), a chapel, kitchen,dormitory, etc., the hall maintained its pre-eminence even in the most complex plans. Amongst the inhabitants of the early vil-lage… … THE HOUSE OF A SAXON THANE small allotments of about five acres, kept nooxen, and were required to work for theirlord some days in each week. The bordariireceived their name from the Saxon wordbord, signifying a cottage, and our word cot-tage is derived from the same root fromwhich cottier springs.…
Architecture, Domestic
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