Lime kilns and moor cottages (1812)

Holme, Charles (ed.) Old English country cottages. London, Paris and New York: Offices of the 'Studio', 1906. p. 148.When the walls are built of stone they are generally about 18 ins. thick, with the external and internal coats of plaster in addition. Cob walls are 2 ft. thick, more or less. In the case of a big door or gateway being introduced, the angles are protected with masonry tailing into the cob work, and for the same reason the corners of dwellings and of windows are rounded in many instances. The windows are small and set back from the face of the wall, the angles rounded […].The buttresses, generally of stone, introduced to strengthen the walls, are a characteristic feature and frequently of enormous size, the projection at the base measuring as much as 2 ft. 6 ins., the width 3 ft., and diminishing from the bottom to the top in one long slope. […] They are generally placed either at the ends or at certain points along the front, and frequently in a line with the chimney stack, rising from the ridge. Most of them are built of slatey stone whitewashed and without any coat of plaster. […] The chimneys are of the same stone and carried well up above the eaves, and then completed with a projecting course of slate […].[Text may be taken from a different source or edition than that listed as the source by Somers Cocks.]

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S38. PROUT, Samuel: PICTURESQUE DELINEATIONS IN THE COUNTIES OF DEVON AND CORNWALL, IMITATED FROM THE ORIGINAL STUDIES.

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