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 75
lands.Wherever detail doesnot assist the mainobject of the buildingit is excluded, andwhere it is called forit is appropriate to thematerial and of goodworkmanship. The exception tothis general statementis to be found ininstances of orna-mental brickwork ofthe middle of the seventeenth century. The… … IN SURREY 57 successful of these is that of the old town hall in Farnham,of which the merest fragment remains. The lower wall sur-face was divided into bays by a rude representation of the Ionicorder, supporting a cornice all of brick ; a deep frieze over thisto the eaves is panelled in alternate…
Architecture, Domestic
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