Picturesque English cottages and their doorway gardens (1905)
Ditchfield, P. H. (Peter Hampson), 1854-1930 · Philadelphia : J.C. Winston · leaf 99
by theupright and horizontal timbers of a cottagenaturally formed a good framework for a great store of glass, and the ruins of thevillas of luxurious Romans reveal brokensheets of window glass which show traces ofstaining in brilliant colors. Aubrey tellsus that Glass windows, except in… … HOUSE NEAR PORLOCK window, and were so utilized But the sizeof these squares was not large, and subse-quently larger frames were inserted. Oldhouses have always very small windows.This is partly accounted for by the closenessof the timber framing, and also by the scarcityand cost of glass. Glass…
Architecture, Domestic
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