DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURE 



struction of the bow window resemble a house in the High Street 

 at Godalming, and the building probably dates from soon after 1577, 

 when the property changed hands. 



The front at Great Tangley (Fig. 14) has similar but richer detail 

 to the windows, and the regular circular quarterings, and is dated 1582. 

 This is the ornament chiefly found in Surrey ; it is simple and does 

 not require any skill in design, and was therefore suitable to the very 

 moderate houses that remain. Lythe Hill, Haslemere, Burningfold, 

 a house at Gomshall, a house lately uncovered at Godalming, and 

 part of a house in a courtyard at Bramley, are the other principal 

 examples that remain visible. 



Sometimes the panels are filled in with brickwork laid in herring- 

 bone fashion, and occasionally the bricks are set in a basket pattern. 

 Bricks for filling in the narrow spaces 

 between close-set timbers seem to have 

 been purposely made, and were set in 

 alternate rakes, giving a herring - bone 

 effect. 



The corner brackets carved from the 

 butt of a tree turned upside down are of 

 humble character in Surrey, and so are 

 the brackets used elsewhere (Fig. 15). 

 Cusped and traceried bargeboards survive, 

 but they are not of the elaborate character 

 found on the Kentish border. After 1550 

 there came so great a demand for work- 

 men that it is not surprising that the new 

 fashion of moulded bargeboards quickly 

 supplanted the traceried patterns. The 

 ends of projecting joists were shown in 

 the earlier houses, but covered with a moulded beam later, when the 

 joists were of smaller scantling. 



The jambs, heads and sills of original windows are worked on the 

 solid frame ; the detail of that at Unsted was apparently a stock pattern, 

 and is found in neighbouring counties. Upper windows were com- 

 monly corbelled out even in cottages, partly perhaps for the sake of the 

 wide window board. At Farnham is an interesting window of this 

 sort of much richer character than is usually found (Fig. 16) ; the 

 pedimented top occurs elsewhere in windows of this date. 



In the fifteenth century the heads were often cusped, as is shown 

 in old drawings, but none of these are known to remain in Surrey. In 

 cottages and the offices of houses there was often no glass in the window, 

 but the opening was divided by square oak uprights set diagonally and 

 closed by a shutter. Glazed windows also were often carried about by 

 important people for use at the manors in which they went to reside. 

 A student will be struck by the great absence of original windows in 

 the cottages and houses, the muUioned windows of which are evident 

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Fig. 15. 



Bracket, Quarry Street, 

 Guildford. 



