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 64
nas tiles in thiscountry until thefifteenth century;either as wall-tiles, which cameto be called bricks,or thack-tiles (roofing tiles). The Flemish immigrants may well have been acquainted withthe beautiful brickwork of the Netherlands, and they may haveimported skilled brickmakers from that… … 46 OLD COTTAGES AND FARM-HOUSES between the timbers of framed houses ; and by the time of Charles I.it had become the staple building material. The old bricks are a better shape than the standard size nowmade. They are longer in proportion to their thickness; thosein the gamekeepers cottage at…
Architecture, Domestic
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