Picturesque English Cottages and Their Doorway Gardens 
A SURREY COTTAGE GARDEN 
to make the walles thick, their windows 
arched and little.” In the larger houses ot 
O 
the courtyard type, the lights of the windows 
faced inwards to the court. 1 his probably 
was for purposes of defence. Along the road¬ 
sides of South Devon we find many lovely 
cottages similar 
to those at Cock- 
A COTTAGE ENTRANCE, SHERE 
ington, with their 
long sweep of 
thatched roof, 
and a wealth of 
luxuriant foliage 
in the garden. 
The days are 
not so very far re¬ 
moved when liter¬ 
ally every Eng¬ 
lishman’s house 
was his castle, 
and means of de¬ 
fence had to be 
provided. Rov¬ 
ing bands of des¬ 
perate outlaws 
were terrors of 
the past when 
most of our 
present buildings 
