Excerpt from The Cottage Homes of England IN this volume I have attempted to summarise the history of the old English cottages and farm houses which still adorn the villages and lanes of the countryside, and in some measure to trace the causes which resulted in their present form. With out entering into undue technicalities I have also endeavoured to explain clearly their system of construction. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.