Old Houses in Kent and Sussex 
illustrations indicate the importance of the 
chimney in the design. The roof is always 
hold in outline, simple in plan,and picturesque 
in treatment; and the houses owe much of 
their charm to the fact that the roofs are so 
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unbroken. The stone of the country does 
not lend itself to the customary separate shafts, 
so that before leaving the roof stone was or¬ 
dinarily abandoned and brick unreservedly 
used as a substitute. In the country around 
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