The cottages and the village life of rural England . a cottage much space was naturally lost in the upperpart of the house, and when numerous children, like the olive-branches, were gathered round the owners table, requiring moresleeping accommodation, he would utilise what we call theattics, construct some chambers therein, and secure light byconstructing little dormer windows entirely in the roof. Many ofthe illustrations show examples of dormer windows, some built upabove the wall of the cottage, and others nestling in the picturesque dormers are seen in the sketch of Groombr
The cottages and the village life of rural England . a cottage much space was naturally lost in the upperpart of the house, and when numerous children, like the olive-branches, were gathered round the owners table, requiring moresleeping accommodation, he would utilise what we call theattics, construct some chambers therein, and secure light byconstructing little dormer windows entirely in the roof. Many ofthe illustrations show examples of dormer windows, some built upabove the wall of the cottage, and others nestling in the picturesque dormers are seen in the sketch of GroombridgeCommon. In timber-framed houses it was not difficult to insert windowsin the spaces between the upright and the horizontal timberswherever light was wanted, instead of the wattle and daub thatfilled in the other interstices. The ingenious way in which thesewere fashioned, the art shown in their construction, and the beauti-ful effect which they produce have been admirably depicted inour artists drawings. Sometimes we see graceful bay windows 74. A BY-LANE AT HOUGHTON, SUSSEX Just beneath the Sussex Downs and the shade of Bury Hill isthe little village of Houghton. Houghton Forest was a region ofdense woods which supplied plentiful timber for the constructionof such cottages as these which stand in a by-lane, along whichperhaps Charles II. and his faithful companions passed during theflight from Worcester to Brighton, whence he set sail to cottages are old enough to have seen the king as he rode pastacross the Arun stream to Amberley. The scenery shows thecharacter of the old forest district, with its grand old trees and the green of the bracken amid the gloom of the heather. LIFE OF RURAL ENGLAND jutting out from the side of a cottage. These are usually additions,and mostly date from the time of Queen Anne. Great skill was exercised in the glazing, plain, small, lozenge-shaped leaded panes being the most common in old-fashionedcottages. They were in use in the
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