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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 37

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No. io. rafters showing under the eaves and the weather-boarded sides of the dormers are Stockholm tarred a warm brown colour. I adopted the square plan, which seemed the most simple and straightforward ; and, as worked out, it will be shown to avoid waste of space in passages, upstairs and down.…

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