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 44
trowel on a cottageat Ewhurst. One of the features to be learned from old tiling is the saddle-back hip tiles at the salient junction of two planes of the roof. Theyform a rounder and more pleasing line at the hip than the right-angled tiles generally used to-day and they are to be had from mostof… … IN FAR.NHAM ROAD, (gUILDFORD]FIG. 31. ^gnp ^ [ Addy, p.Nevill. +9- 28 OLD COTTAGES AND FARM-HOUSES plain half-round tiles, which have not been improved upon since.I have seen and sketched ornamental ridge tiles in Suffolk, theindividual work of one man, not a casting from a machine, but Iknow of…
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