COTTAGES AND FARMS 



39 



means, as in the biick cornice in whose joints the polypody 

 fern has found a home, and in the toothed string-course above ; 

 looking at the building one is filled with the comfortable 

 conviction, that of its kind, and for its place and purpose, it 

 could scarcely have been better done. The stone of which 

 this mill-house is built is not quite the same as the Bargate 



Steps near thk Old Mill 



stone of the sandy hills, though it is a product of the same 

 formation. It comes from nearer the WeaM, and is quarried 

 in larger blocks. Especially with this stone, but often also 

 with the usual Bargate, local custom decorates the rather wide 

 or uneven mortar joint with small pieces of the black iron- 

 stone. The bricklayers call it garoting or garneting ; there 

 seems to be no general agreement as to the exact word. 



