Picturesque English Cottages and their Doorway Gardens 
BROADWAY 
Copyright, 1904, by H. Troth 
tions of modern cottages show that architects 
do sometimes obtain good results when they 
are not hampered by financial difficulties and 
parsimonious em¬ 
ployers. The mod¬ 
ern cottage sat 
Bald on, Oxford¬ 
shire have this 
merit. This shire 
can boast of 
cb arming rural 
dwellings. An 
old cottage in 
the same village 
is attractive with 
its eager group of 
characteristic in¬ 
habitants. Great 
Tew has the credit 
of being tbe pret¬ 
tiest village in the 
shire. It lies 
among the steep 
well-timbered 
bills in mid-Oxfordshire. All the cottages are 
built of a local stone which has turned to 
a grey yellow or rich ochre, and are either 
steeply thatched, 
or roofed with 
thinnish slabs of 
the same yellow¬ 
ish grey stone, 
about the size of 
slates and called 
by the vulgar 
“slats.” The dia- 
mond-paned win¬ 
dows have often 
stone mull ions 
with drip-stones 
ove r them; and 
over some of the 
doors are old stone 
cornices with 
spandrils. No one 
cottage repeats 
another. No¬ 
where do we find 
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