International studio (27.1905/1906(1906))

The Country, Cottage


COTTAGES, ABINGER, SURREY : FRONT VIEW

W. DÜNN & R. WATSON, ARCHITECTS


kitchen of a cottage on the Quantocks. The Cot-
tages by Mr. Horace Field (page 152)are on a smaller
scale, but show a distinct feeling for the Surrey type.
The question of the
thickriess of the walls is
important in relation to
climate and materials.
Walls should increase in
thickness, not in propor-
tion to the cold, but in
Proportion to the wet. A
rainy country needs walls
of double courses with a
hollow space between. In
Surrey and Sussex no
amount of weather-board-
ing—freely though it is
used for that purpose—is
really enough to keep a
house dry. Any one about
to build in this or any
district exposed to driving
rains should adopt these
hollow walls. In Sussex,
for instance, it has been
found advisable to build

the walls in two 9-inch thicknesses, with the space
between filled in with cement concrete; or in
those cases where tiling, weather-boarding, or

SPOONER, ARCHITECT

KITCHEN OF A COTTAGE ON THE QUANTOCKS C.