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 42
pins holding the stone slate.These pins perish in time, and it is probable that all the examplesof stone roofing shown in these illustrations have been relaid atone time or another. No doubt when these removals took place,the stone was often replaced with tiles, as at Summersbury Farm-house (Plate… … FIG. 29. one cottage roofed entirely with these rounded tiles, about twomiles south of Redhill, and cannot say whether they are originalor the freak of a later period. Thispattern is seen in vertical tile- hangingat Prestwick (Fig. 28) and elsewhere.Figure 28 shows other fancy shaped tilesused for…
Architecture, Domestic
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