An English holiday with car and camera . s are delightfully thick, so that the interior iswarm in winter and cool in summer ; its roof of thinsplit stones, sized down from the top to the eaves(the smallest being at the top), makes the loveliestcovering possible to imagine, for these stone slatesform a mosaic of many greys, ranging from cool towarm ; nor are they laid with machine-like, mono-tonous regularity as are the blue slates or red tilesof a modern building, and their rough surfaces en-courage the growth of gold and silver lichen, furtherenhancing their charm. The old builders under-stoo
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An English holiday with car and camera . s are delightfully thick, so that the interior iswarm in winter and cool in summer ; its roof of thinsplit stones, sized down from the top to the eaves(the smallest being at the top), makes the loveliestcovering possible to imagine, for these stone slatesform a mosaic of many greys, ranging from cool towarm ; nor are they laid with machine-like, mono-tonous regularity as are the blue slates or red tilesof a modern building, and their rough surfaces en-courage the growth of gold and silver lichen, furtherenhancing their charm. The old builders under-stood the importance of a roof, and they took painsto make it beautiful, and they made it high pitched, the better to throw off the rain and the snow. Aroof emphasises the shelter that a home gives toa man. An essentially English style of house whereinthere is no manifest striving after the picturesque.A house symmetrical and well proportioned thatpleases the eye by its look of solidarity, as thoughdesigned to withstand both time and tempest. o H aot>op H DO XIII OLD-WORLD HOMES 233 What picturesqueness it possesses comes withoutbeing sought after. Such houses are generally oneroom deep, so that they are long rather than wide, which allows of plenty of window light on eitherside, and permits them being covered by one spanof roof, thus giving better weather protection, theline of roof being broken by big dormer gables.Their muUioned windows are always provided withthe good old-fashioned casements, that are easilyopened with one hand, and when well made, as theywere, never rattle nor let in the wet. I often wonderwhy the casement window went out of use, for ithas many advantages over the sash contrivance thathas so generally taken its place, though in manyrecent buildings, I am glad to find, there is a reversalto the old type. The windows are placed flush with the outerwalls, leaving a deeply recessed space within thatallows ample room for a cushioned seat, whicharrangement gives a