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A book of cottages and little houses : for landlords, architects, builders and others with suggestions as to cost, the housing difficulty and the improvement of taste in these matters (1906)

Ashbee, C. R. (Charles Robert), 1863-1942, author, Griggs, Frederick Landseer Maur, 1876-1938, illustrator, Essex House Press, printer, B.T. Batsford Ltd., publisher · [London] : Printed at the Essex House Press, & published by B.T. Batsford · leaf 29

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No. 3. attached to this house because it was built on the foundation of an old Cotswold cottage that had fallen into ruin. The old door is shown below opening to the street. Finding these foun¬ dations firm enough, I pulled the whole house down to the door level, used what had been the labourer’s…

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