Download or read book Picturesque English Cottages and Their Doorway Gardens (Classic Reprint) written by P. H. Ditchfield and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-06-22 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Picturesque English Cottages and Their Doorway Gardens A new law should be enacted for the sup pression of such dwellings, which are as dis agreeable to live in as to look at, and the punishment for the offending builder, who thus could spoil God's beautiful earth with such detestable architectural enormities, should be no less than that of being hanged from his own roof-beam. They are sore places to live in, these modern cheap cot tages. The jerry - builder makes the walls so thin that the cold winds of winter seem to blow through them. The hot sun of sum mer remorselessly beats down upon the slate roofs, and makes the upper rooms almost unbearable; whereas a thatched roof will keep you 6001 in summer and warm in winter, and the old cottage walls are sturdy and strong like our rustic laborers, and can defy the keen blasts of winter. Such a cot tage you will see on the road from Mine head to Porlock, with its graceful thatch and tiled porch and its background of lovely trees. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.