DOI issue:
Nr. 106 (December, 1905)
DOI article:Morris, G. L.; Wood, Esther: The country cottage and the materials used in its construction
DOI Page / Citation link: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.26961#0196
The Country Cottage
rough-cast is used, one g-inch and one 4^-inch
thickness, with space as before, will be sufficient;
but under no circumstances will a wise architect
undertake to erect a house in such neighbour-
hoods without making sure the walls will be
weather-proof. In some places it has been shovvn
tbat the fierce rains will get through a 14-inch or
even 18-inch ordinary brick wall. At the same
time, in bleak and exposed places as much depends
upon sound construction and good finishing as upon
actual thickness of walls.
On page 153 are illustratecl a pair of week-end
cottages by Mr. G. LI. Morris, showing an example of
the use of brick and tile, the tiles being used for the
roofing, the faces and cheeks of the dormers, and
also introduced into the walling, three courses of
brick alternating with three courses of tiles laid
flat. In the cottages at Colinton (page 154), by
Mr. R. S. Lorimer, the walls are covered with
rough-cast and the roofs with small slates.
The use of weather-boarding and weather-tiles,
so pleasantly common in the south of England,
affords another variety in the treatment of the
upper storey of a cottage or house. Weather-
boarding, indeed, may often be employed to cover
the whole of the exterior walls, and can then con-
sist, in sheltered places, of any light and inexpensive
framework, given a good foundation of brick or
stone up to the floor or sill level. The wood, if
deal, can be tarred or painted ; if elm, it mellows
and improves greatly by wear.
A great deal of variety may be obtained in the
laying of weather-tiling ; but it is better, in view of
the general harmony and coherence, to avoid those
fanciful arrangements from which even the old
tiling is not altogether free. Very pleasing effects
are to be had with plain tiling, introducing two or
three rows of ornamental tiles in the gables, or
some of lozenge shape, or with some slight Varia-
tion in colour. It is always necessary, however,
that where the hanging fmishes, two or three
TWO COTTAGES AT RII’LEY H- FIELD, ARCITITECT
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rough-cast is used, one g-inch and one 4^-inch
thickness, with space as before, will be sufficient;
but under no circumstances will a wise architect
undertake to erect a house in such neighbour-
hoods without making sure the walls will be
weather-proof. In some places it has been shovvn
tbat the fierce rains will get through a 14-inch or
even 18-inch ordinary brick wall. At the same
time, in bleak and exposed places as much depends
upon sound construction and good finishing as upon
actual thickness of walls.
On page 153 are illustratecl a pair of week-end
cottages by Mr. G. LI. Morris, showing an example of
the use of brick and tile, the tiles being used for the
roofing, the faces and cheeks of the dormers, and
also introduced into the walling, three courses of
brick alternating with three courses of tiles laid
flat. In the cottages at Colinton (page 154), by
Mr. R. S. Lorimer, the walls are covered with
rough-cast and the roofs with small slates.
The use of weather-boarding and weather-tiles,
so pleasantly common in the south of England,
affords another variety in the treatment of the
upper storey of a cottage or house. Weather-
boarding, indeed, may often be employed to cover
the whole of the exterior walls, and can then con-
sist, in sheltered places, of any light and inexpensive
framework, given a good foundation of brick or
stone up to the floor or sill level. The wood, if
deal, can be tarred or painted ; if elm, it mellows
and improves greatly by wear.
A great deal of variety may be obtained in the
laying of weather-tiling ; but it is better, in view of
the general harmony and coherence, to avoid those
fanciful arrangements from which even the old
tiling is not altogether free. Very pleasing effects
are to be had with plain tiling, introducing two or
three rows of ornamental tiles in the gables, or
some of lozenge shape, or with some slight Varia-
tion in colour. It is always necessary, however,
that where the hanging fmishes, two or three
TWO COTTAGES AT RII’LEY H- FIELD, ARCITITECT
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