House and Garden 
thousand of lantern horns 
for the windows of timber 
houses,” and, again, “gild¬ 
ing the lead or lattice-work 
of the horn windows.” 
The lights of the win¬ 
dows of stone-built houses 
were separated by stone 
mullions, and in large win¬ 
dows there are transoms 
also, and a hood-moulding 
placed above them, as in 
the old building at Mar- 
pie Hall. Great skill was 
exercised in the glazing, 
plain, small,lozenge-shaped 
leaded panes being the 
most common in the old- 
fashioned windows. 1 he 
old timber houses of Lan¬ 
cashire and Cheshire often 
retain much of the original 
glazing. At Little Moreton 
Hall, in the latter county, 
there are no less than six different patterns 
of glazing in leaded lights. The cottages at 
Chilham, Kent, show good and picturesque 
examples of lozenge-shaped lattice-windows. 
Many houses have been shorn of their old lat¬ 
tice-windows, and have received instead of 
these, square or oblong panes, or the modern 
sash-window. The best of the old work 
has too often been destroyed. 
A COTTAGE GARDEN 
WE SCOTT 
Owing to the long sweep of the old thatched 
roofs, the height of the side walls in the upper 
storeys was very small, and the upstairs win¬ 
dows were placed very low down, and some¬ 
times the lower sill was level with the floor of 
the room. In order to light them better, the 
picturesque dormer windows were introduced 
which form a charming feature of these old 
buildings. I he houses at Broadway, Worces¬ 
tershire, would have no 
light in the upper storey 
were it not for these dor¬ 
mer windows. The cot¬ 
tages in the beautiful vil¬ 
lage of Castle Combe, near 
Chippenham,have graceful 
dormers. This village lies 
apart from the usual haunts 
of tourists in a charming 
and secluded valley. The 
stream rolls placidly along 
beneath the ancient bridge, 
as placidly as life seems to 
glide in this quiet old-world 
place. In the centre of the 
village still stands the mar¬ 
ket-cross beneath its shel¬ 
tering roof of moss-grown 
tiles, a delightful picture of 
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