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 31
in towns and largehouses had been abandoned, or modified, by the inroads of foreignworkmen and classic ideals. The Renaissance swept the countryof Gothic art in high places, but it left the humble phases ofbuilding, and the country places of the sixteenth and seventeenthcenturies show work very… … FIG. 13. the planning of these cottages, just as, in a greater degree, itgoverned the plan of a vaulted basilica or a Gothic cathedral.This is indirectly borne out by antiquaries and others who havestudied the evolution of house building ; they show that theearliest houses were without walls, the…
Architecture, Domestic
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