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ot some definite architectural period, 

 such as Georgian, and only succeeds in 

 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 MATERI.\LS. 



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. 



