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FRAGMENT V. 



ON 



DATES 



OF 



BUILDINGS. 





A cottage or Keepers House was deemed necessary at Aspley 

 Wood, about three miles from Woburn Abbey. The Duke of 

 edford (to whom 



am in 



debt 



or numerous opportunities 



of displaying his good Taste) one day observed, that out o 

 the numerous Cottages called Gothic, which every where pre- 



ne\ 



seen one 



At 



sent themselves near the high roads, he had 

 which did not betray its modern character and recent date 

 the same time his Grace expressed a desire to have a Cottage of 

 the style and date of buildings prior to the reign of Henry VIII, 

 of which only some imperfect fragments now remain. 



Adjoining to this building, an attempt 



assimilate a garden to 



same character 



an 



een made to 

 the annexed 



Plate will furnish an example of both. 



communication of some curious specimens of Timber- 



houses was made to the Society of Antiquaries 



1810, which 



was 



ordered to be engraved and printed for the Archseologia. 



But this building does more 



lan 



any 



rawing, to exemplify 



many of the parts which have been thus rescued from the effects 



of time. 



To admirers of genuine 



o 



thic forms, the following Note 



