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 41
gin Surrey. During the fourteenth century thatch was fre-quently whitewashed as a precaution against fire.1 The dangerfrom fire, and the cost of up-keep, both play their part ineliminating thatch, but its disappearance is chiefly owing tomachine reaping, which so bruises the straw that its life is… … FIG. 27. the slates are laid in diminishing courses, the big ones at the eaves,and the smallest at the apex of the roof ; the pitch of the roof isgenerally less steep on account of the weight of the material, andthe consequent stress on the wooden pins holding the stone slate.These pins perish in…
Architecture, Domestic
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