Old English Country Cottages
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Although it is extremely difficult to determine to what extent the Flemings influenced the architecture of the villages and the cottages, it was probably less in Norfolk and Suffolk than is usually assumed. For instance, chimneys, a feature where one would naturally expect some details of definite Flemish character, there are none to prove their skill in brick building. There are one or two crude examples of circular plan at Blythburgh, and another variety at Walberswick (page 50), but for the ...most part the chimneys are disappointing, and generally finish with a double course of projecting bricks. Another detail, the dormer, with roof of flatter pitch than the main roof, may be foreign, but seems more likely to have arisen from the difficulty of covering a small gabled or hipped roof with pantiles. The most remarkable point illustrated by these dwellings is the wonderful conservatism with which the builders clung to their methods of using materials ; as, for example, in the high-pitched gable, with its iron ties and monograms, and the simplicity characteristic of English work which persisted from generation to generation.
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Although it is extremely difficult to determine to what extent the Flemings influenced the architecture of the villages and the cottages, it was probably less in Norfolk and Suffolk than is usually assumed. For instance, chimneys, a feature where one would naturally expect some details of definite Flemish character, there are none to prove their skill in brick building. There are one or two crude examples of circular plan at Blythburgh, and another variety at Walberswick (page 50), but for the ...most part the chimneys are disappointing, and generally finish with a double course of projecting bricks. Another detail, the dormer, with roof of flatter pitch than the main roof, may be foreign, but seems more likely to have arisen from the difficulty of covering a small gabled or hipped roof with pantiles. The most remarkable point illustrated by these dwellings is the wonderful conservatism with which the builders clung to their methods of using materials ; as, for example, in the high-pitched gable, with its iron ties and monograms, and the simplicity characteristic of English work which persisted from generation to generation.
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