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 45
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 none in Surrey. The practice of bedding roofing tiles inclean straw is… … FIG. 32. NEWARK MILL, NEAR RIPLEY. teenth, timber was the staple building material of the neighbour-hood. Its use accounts in part for the disappearance of earlier work.A far larger number of the houses illustrated in this book are oftimber framed construction than appears on the surface of the…
Architecture, Domestic
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