ERBYSHIRE IrCH^^OLOGICAL 



AND 



Watural JHistory |ociety. 



Sout!) Site!), Ktrritrgci^ag. 



By Percy H. Currey. 



IMBER BUILDINGS, ownng to the cheapness of good 

 building stone, are in this county comparatively rare, 

 though in the middle ages they must have been 

 almost universal ; those which remain are chiefly 

 seventeenth century works of a humble character, cottages and 

 farm buildings constructed in the 

 simplest manner possible, the 

 timbers framed to form large 

 square panels filled in with 

 " wattle and daub," which has 

 usually been replaced by brick- 

 work. When we find here a 

 timber-framed house of substan- 

 tial construction, such as is 

 comparatively common in Wor- 

 cestershire, Cheshire, and else- 

 where, it is an object of much 

 interest. Such an example exists, 

 though it does not from the out- 

 side reveal its interest at first 



VOL. XXVIII. 



The Fountain. The yew tree 

 arbour in the distance. 



