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 68
eld, emergingsometimes astride the ridge and sometimes to one side of it, asat Eashing (Plate xxn). The treatment of the roof in thisexample so as to avoid a gutter is very characteristic ; so far as Iknow it has died out in this country, but it is still practised inFrance. The internal chimney… … (Fig. 62) are among the mostdelightful features of the Surreycottage. The chimney corner wasa natural development of therequirements of the time. Woodwas the only fuel, and it wasto be had for the gathering, ingreat abundance. Parker says itwas thrown on the fire in alternatelayers of dry and green…
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