. The English house, how to judge its periods and styles. Cottages at Kingsland, by T. H. Winterbodrn, Leominster. See tage Cottages at Easebourne, Sussex. See pa^e 173 HALLS OF THE POOR 173 forwtrd and the upper story at the floor levelprojecting, or sometimes carried around the entirebuilding. * It is clear, then, that rustic architecture inSussex and Kent, and in other parts of England,is a development of the simple hall whose evolu-tion I have traced for you from primitive , never fail to measure the central roomin an old cottage or farmhouse, so as to
. The English house, how to judge its periods and styles. Cottages at Kingsland, by T. H. Winterbodrn, Leominster. See tage Cottages at Easebourne, Sussex. See pa^e 173 HALLS OF THE POOR 173 forwtrd and the upper story at the floor levelprojecting, or sometimes carried around the entirebuilding. * It is clear, then, that rustic architecture inSussex and Kent, and in other parts of England,is a development of the simple hall whose evolu-tion I have traced for you from primitive , never fail to measure the central roomin an old cottage or farmhouse, so as to learnwhether it was built in bays and half-bays—thatis, whether the length is a multiple of sixteenor one of eight. You remember those long cottages that recallto mind the one where Anne Hathaway is saidto have lived ? Not only were they built inseveral bays, but they used to be sold by thebay, like fodder for horses ; and sometimes thebays were left by will to different children. Inthis event a cottage could be sold and the moneydivided in exact accord with the different lega-cies, or the children might use the cottage asseveral homes, addi
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