314 



CHIMNEYS AND DORMERS 



FIG. 228. House in the High Street, Lewes, Sussex. 



windows went almost out of fashion, so unyielding were the sashes 

 with which they would have had to be fitted. In small houses 

 a bay-window is sometimes to be found, such as those in a house 

 in the High Street at Lewes, in Sussex (Fig. 228). Chimneys 

 grew plainer and plainer, and came to be regarded rather as a 

 necessary evil than as a means of adorning the house. Nearly 

 all those on the houses illustrated in this chapter are of the 

 simplest character, far removed, for instance, from that on the 

 north front of Kirby Hall, in Northamptonshire (Fig. 230), which 

 is part of the work attributed to Inigo Jones. The dormer 

 window included in the same group is allied to the Jacobean 

 type, inasmuch as it is in effect part of the wall, whereas 

 from Webb's time onwards dormers were part of the roof, and 

 were susceptible of very little variety of treatment. The stone 

 chimney from a house at Wansford (Fig. 229, 2) dates from the 

 end of the seventeenth century, and although much plainer, it is 

 clear that pains have been taken with its design. So, too, with 

 the four brick examples in Fig. 229 ; they are all interesting, 

 though not elaborate. In later years even the touches which 

 gave these their character were withheld, and chimney-stacks 

 became mere oblong masses with the scantiest of caps. 



