DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURE 



large state room which has a remarkably fine plaster ceiling. Similar 

 arrangements exist elsewhere, but have seldom been left unaltered. It 

 is quite different from the ordinary arrangement of an upstairs state 

 room, such as is found at Slyfields, but it is found again in the early 

 eighteenth century house at Sudbrook Park, Richmond. 



Plans of two cottages maybe added, both from Darbyn's Brook, Black- 

 heath near Guildford ; the parts shaded black are certainly original. No. i 

 (Fig. 1 1) had a wooden stair as shown ; the annex and the oven are 

 not original, but of old date. No. 2 (Fig. 1 2) has a good king-post roof 

 and was of earlier date ; the brick chimney may have been added ; the 

 partitions upstairs and the stairs are not original. 



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Fig. 12. Plans of Cottage at 

 Darbyn's Brook. 



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 Fig. II. Plans of Cottage at 

 Darbyn's Brook. 



The method of timber construction in post and panel does not vary 

 much throughout the country. In the examples previous to the latter 

 part of the sixteenth century, when timber was plentiful and building 

 less frequent, the uprights are placed close together ; there is, indeed, 

 as much post as panel. The work in Kent is of this fashion, as is that 

 of early buildings such as Crowhurst in Surrey. Plain curved struts 

 to the angles of frames are used, but the quadrant pieces arranged in 

 circles round the crossing of the timbers were not adopted till it be- 

 came desirable to economize material and to introduce more ornament 

 of a cheaper character than the carving that had adorned the mediaeval 

 buildings. The new owners in Surrey were smaller men than in the 



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