Old cottages & farm-houses in Surrey / illustrated on one hundred collotype plates from photographs specially taken by W. Galsworthy Davie, with an introduction and numerous sketches by W. Curtis Green (1908)
Green, W. Curtis (William Curtis), 1875-1960, Davie, W. Galsworthy · London : B.T. Batsford · leaf 21
FIG. T,. COTTAGES AT EAST HORSLEY. 4 OLD COTTAGES AND FARM-HOUSES sidered with what to replace them. To us, such houses as theseillustrated by Mr. Davie, essentially English in design and work-manship, are a heritage ; they are gradually disappearing, andbeing replaced with our own work. If it were… … of the most cultured, it is without hope. Yet, if we considerthe degraded state to which the art of building sank during theearlier half of the last century, we shall appreciate the improvementthat is taking place. The rise of new conditions and new idealsin society happily does not imply the total…
Architecture, Domestic
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