COTTAGES AND FARMS 



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many of these may have handsome timber-work under the 

 rough-cast, which was probably added later as a protection 

 from weather, possibly as late as the time when many 

 windows were closed up. There is hardly a village that 

 does not furnish an example of some such way of building. 



The pictures show two farms of the better class, seven or 



Farmhouse at Shere, with Walls Rough-cast 



eight miles apart. One has an ornamental barge-board of 

 beautiful form and proportion. Both have evidence of 

 windows blocked at the time of the iniquitous window-tax. 



The backs of these farms are as interesting in their way 

 as the fronts ; the main house grouping charmingly with its 

 out-buildings, and showing the inevitably good effect of local 

 material used in the traditional way to meet the simple needs 

 of the place. 



