Picturesque English cottages and their doorway gardens (1905)
Ditchfield, P. H. (Peter Hampson), 1854-1930 · Philadelphia : J.C. Winston · leaf 81
entury, itcannot be denied that the houses of the peas-ants were hovels of poverty and filth. Villageswere clusters of mud huts covered with reedsand straw. There was sometimes only-a sin-gle apartment, and Piers Plowman tells ofthe dank smoke that came from the turf firewhich tould find no vent,… … AN OLD HALF-TIMBERED HOUSE AT BRENCHLEY 76 Strange Survivals—Geology and Variations in Style the ground, and the walls of clay or rubble.Some houses had two rooms, one of which wasoccupied by the cow, and a rude partitioncalled brattish rose to the eaves and sepa-rated this shippon from the only…
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