. Vanishing England . som Framed, and IntertieWork. In judging of the age of a house it will beremembered that the nearer together the upright postsare placed the older the house is. The builders as timewent on obtained greater confidence, set their postswider apart, and held them together by transoms. Surrey is a county of good cottages and farm-houses,and these have had their chroniclers in Miss GertrudeJekylls delightful Old West Surrey and in the moretechnical work of Mr. Ralph Nevill, The numer-ous works on cottage and farm-house building publishedby Mr. Batsford illustrate the var
. Vanishing England . som Framed, and IntertieWork. In judging of the age of a house it will beremembered that the nearer together the upright postsare placed the older the house is. The builders as timewent on obtained greater confidence, set their postswider apart, and held them together by transoms. Surrey is a county of good cottages and farm-houses,and these have had their chroniclers in Miss GertrudeJekylls delightful Old West Surrey and in the moretechnical work of Mr. Ralph Nevill, The numer-ous works on cottage and farm-house building publishedby Mr. Batsford illustrate the variety of styles that pre-vailed in different counties, and which are mainlyattributable to the variety in the local materials in thecounties. Thus in the Cotswolds, Northamptonshire,Derbyshire, Yorkshire, Westmorland, Somersetshire,and elsewhere there is good building-stone ; and there wefind charming examples of stone-built cottages and farm- 1 The CJiarm of the English Village, pp. 50-7. ! ?? II- E»ffl/fi 1M! I fill. -? ,.S i ..... II M, . ill fj % f J, o.«-
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