The Cottage Homes of EnglandSurveys the quaint old cottages, farmhouses, and gardens that dot the English countryside throughout Kent, Surrey, Sussex, and Wessex. |
Contents
CHAPTER PAGE I ON COTTAGES IN GENERAL I | 1 |
THE EVOLUTION OF THE COTTAGE THE EARLY STAGES | 20 |
THE EVOLUTION OF THE COTTAGE continued | 42 |
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acres agricultural architecture beams beautiful bedrooms brick built centre charm chimney church colour comfort common Cotswold Cotswold district decorative delightful district door DORSET dwellings early eaves elegance Elizabethan England examples farm farmer farmhouse flowers frame gable garden give green grey half-timbered hall hand Haslemere hearth horses Horsham huge hundred inns iron Kent labour land landlord landscape less live lord Lord Mount Stephen manor manor-house modern nature never old cottages old English old English cottages old houses painted Penshurst Place perhaps picture picturesque plaster plate facing posts primitive prosperity REDLYNCH roads Romans round rude rural seems seen shepherd sixteenth century sometimes stone straw style Surrey Surrey and Kent Sussex thatch things tiles timber to-day towns trees village villein walls Washington Irving wattle and daub weather weather-tiles WEST TARRING WESTERHAM Wiltshire WITLEY wood yeomen