Some account of domestic architecture in England from Edward I to Richard II, with notices of foreign examples and numerous illustrations of existing remains from original drawings (1882)
. By their own magistrates theywere compelled to whitewash even the thatches of theirhouses, where thatch existed as a roofing material; thiswas a precaution against fire, observed to this day inWales, in which country plastered thatches are of ordinaryoccurrence. When coal became the common fuel… … VIEW OF VENICE IN THE FOURTEENTH CENTURY. FROM A MS. (BODL. 264) IN THE BODLEIAN LIBRARY. EXTERNAL DECORATION OF HOUSES. 27 domestic economy, and it is reasonable to suppose that thescrupulous citizens resorted to those means of beautifyingthe exterior of their dwellings which had been in use…
Architecture, Domestic
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