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when in possession of a cow or horse, added a small shed and 

 other hovels to one end, or to the side ; the methods of doing 

 which are too obvious and simple to require explanation. From 

 circumstances which it is unnecessary to recount, this kind of 

 cottage would in time be made two stories in height. In this 

 case, if the walls were still made of clay, the projections would 

 be continued, and also placed over the lower windows ; but as 

 brick or stone would be often used, when this form was 

 adopted, there would then be less reason for a projecting roof. 

 But, from the thinness of the walls, the windows would neces- 

 sarily be placed nearly even with their surface, and conse- 

 quently much exposed to the weather ; still, I say, projections 

 over them became necessary, as well as over the doors. These 

 projections, as in the other case, would sometimes be made of 

 wood, and sometimes of slate or grey schistus ; sometimes car- 

 ried across the whole length of the side walls, and sometimes 

 no farther than over the windows. 



Cottages of both these kinds, formed of clay and wood, may 

 be seen in many parts of Worcestershire, Gloucestershire, and 

 Herefordshire. In other counties the same form exists; but 

 the materials are either entirely bricks, or bricks with the wood 

 in place of clay, turf, or even stone above, as at Ambleside, and 

 several parts of Lancashire. — [See Plate V. fig. 1.] 



