Some account of domestic architecture in England, from Richard II to Henry VIII (1859)
Parker, John Henry, 1806-1884 · Oxford London, J. H. and J. Parker · leaf 334
nly four or five stories high. Thedoorways are frequently built with sloping sides, the openingbeing wider at the bottom than the top, a fashion which hasbeen called Egyptian and Etruscan, but is here simply an Irishfashion originating in the cairns, dictated by the nature of thebuilding material,… … In the earlier towers the parapet is plain, and has a stonealure behind it grooved to let off the water from the roofthrough holes which pass under the parapet at intervals of twoor three feet, and sometimes, but rarely, have spouts or gur-goyles to them. In the later towers the parapets are…
Architecture, Domestic
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