Garden-houses. 



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of some definite architectural period, 

 such as Georgian, and only succeeds iri 

 creating the idea that its builder is 

 playing at rusticity. When, however, a 

 summer-house is placed in a remote 

 corner of a garden and bears no definite 

 relation to the main house, some latitude 

 is permissible. Nothing could be more 

 attractive than the Devonshire example 

 illustrated in Fig. 305, where a thatched 

 summer-house shelters in the corner of 

 a walled garden. In this case the walls 

 are built of " cob," i.e., of earth rammed 



FIG. 307. — BUILT OF OLD MATERIALS. 



FIG. 306. — AT LITTLE- BOARHUNT, LIPHOOK. 



in the local fashion, which has prevailed 

 for centuries. A cob wall (or .pise, as 

 it used to be called . early in the nine- 

 teenth century) will last almost for 

 ever, if it is built on a stout foundation of 

 stone or brick or concrete, and if it is 

 soundly roofed with thatch, so that the 

 wet is kept from its -sole and its head. 

 Where the natural treatment of the 

 adjoining wall is thatching, it is wholly 

 fitting that the summer-house should be 

 roofed in the same fashion. The solecism 

 to be avoided is the importation into 

 a part of the country, where thatch is 

 unknown, of a ready-made thatched 

 pavilion framed in' barked logs, which 

 are too often made garish and ridiculous 

 by yellow varnish. 



