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 66
in the castle longbefore they did in the yeo-mans house or the cottage.Such a primitive arrange-ment could only have been possible with wood fires, and musthave been very uncomfortable for the occupants.1 When theopen roofed central hall or common room was converted intorooms one over the other, as… … RAKE HOUSE, WITLEY (v. Fig. 71). KJs 48 OLD COTTAGES AND FARM-HOUSES the guest house at Lingfield, flues to carry the smoke becamenot a luxury but a necessity. This multiplication of chimneysin the better class houses dates from the fifteenth century.1 The chimneys built outside the houses of early…
Architecture, Domestic
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