Excerpt from Small Country Houses: Their Repair and Enlargement; Forty Examples Chosen From Five Centuries
The welcome given to Small Country Houses: Their Repair and Enlargement. ix. Preface. The welcome given to Small Country Houses of To-day would seem, if I may believe my correspondents, to have been due in no small measure to the seven chapters (out of forty-eight) which described old houses repaired and enlarged. This suggested that a second and uniform volume, dealing wholly with the treatment of old houses, whether cottage or farm house or small manor house, would be useful to the increasing number of people who like the atmosphere of age in their homes. A real responsibility rests on those who under take the alteration of an old fabric, for our buildings are an essential part of our national history. This is no less true of the cottage than of the palace. Our building traditions are as much, indeed more, a heritage from forgotten craftsmen, as from William of Wykeham, Master Yevele at Westminster and John of Gloucester, who was Kings Mason at Windsor. Of such nameless folk we may use Solomon's words, with but a single change: . a poor wise man, and he by his wisdom built the city; yet no man remembered that same poor man.
To those who appreciate all the skill and subtlety of touch which were the outcome of the wisdom of old builders, this record of the treatment of their handiwork is dedicated.
I have to acknowledge the kindness of Mr. Basil Oliver, who has lent me the photographs for Figs. I, V, VI, and the plan in Fig.47 ;of Mr. Batsford, for his permission to reproduce that plan from Mr. Oliver's Old Houses and Village Buildings in East Anglia; and of Mr. H. Avray Tipping, for allowing me to incorporate the substance of two articles by him in Chapters VIII and XXVI.
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