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may prove acceptable, as shewing the 



authorities for all the 



detail of this Cottage. 



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* Note by J. A. R. This Cottage serves as a specimen of the Timber houses which 

 prevailed in England from about the year 1450 to 1550; that is, from the reign of 

 Henry VI to that of Henry VIII. As few buildings of this date remain entire, and 

 every year reduces their number, the general plan of this Cottage is not copied from 

 any individual specimen, but the parts are taken from the most perfect fragments of 

 the kind, sonic of which have since been destroyed. The hint of the lower story, 

 being of stone, is taken from a building near Eltham Palace; except that the windows 

 are here executed in oak instead of stone. In some buildings, both of brick and of 

 stone, it is not uncommon to see oak windows used, as at Wolterton Manor House, 

 East Barsham, Norfolk, and at Carhow Priory near Norwich. Stone and brick corbels, 

 supporting beams, may be found at Lynn Regis and at Ely. The brick-nogging between 

 the timbers is copied from a curious Timber-house in Lynn Regis, built by Walter Conys 

 in the reign of Henry VI or Edward IV. The hint of the upright timbers being orna- 

 mented with small arches (over the centre building), was taken from a timber-house 

 near Kelvedon, Essex, which has since been destroyed. The gable-board is copied 



from a house at St. Edmondsbury, and is not uncommon 



The form of the p 



(of which few specimens now remain, being the parts most exposed to the weather) 

 taken from some in brick or stone; the only one I have ever found carved in oak is 

 Shrewsbury. 



The square flag is copied from one at Hornchurch, Essex 



The project 



bow is taken from a window in Norwich, but the tracery of it is not uncommon 



a 



specimen in oak is still to be found at Knowle, in Kent 



The tracery of 



Tl 



dow is taken from a timber-house in Coventry, but this also is not uncommon, 

 windows are all taken from an earlier date than the end of the reign of Henry VIII 



before they were divided by a cross-bar 



reign of Edward VI, Elizabeth 



did not prevail in wood till the 



© 



and the early part of the seventeenth century 



The 



design of the porch is a hint from various specimens of open porches, and particularly the 

 cloisters of old alms-houses, or short galleries leading to dwelling-houses, as at Clapton, 



The design for the door of the Cottage is taken 



Lea-bridge, since destroyed, &c 



from one remaining at Sudbury, in Suffolk 



The chimneys are copied from those at 



Wolterton Manor House, at Barsham, Norfolk, published in the fourth volume of the 









