4 OLD WEST SURREY 



lime being slightly warmed with ochre. Oftener than not 

 the upper part was weather-tiled, or tile-hung — an excellent 

 protection against the weather. Walking round these old 

 cottages, there is sure to be on one side the large projection 

 which means the wide fireplace inside, and often a separate 

 projection of the brick oven (see p. 10). 



The old roofing material was almost invariably the plain. 



Tile-hung Cottage, Tiltham's Green 



roofing tile, though towards the Sussex border many roofs 

 were covered with ' Horsham slabs,' of a stone that flakes into 

 plates like thick slates. 



The plain tiles were sometimes varied with others 

 rounded at the free end like a fish-scale, or the same pattern, 

 with a small square shoulder. Often in the older examples the 

 weather-tiles were of unusual thickness, giving an excel- 

 lent effect, as in the road front of the mill building, p. 37. 



