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Title: The English house, how to judge its periods and styles
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Sparrow, Walter Shaw, 1862-
Subjects: Architecture, Domestic Architecture
Publisher: New York, J. Lane Co.
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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ere meant only togive air their size was unusually small. Somefamous barns, dating from the fourteenth andfifteenth centuries, were large cruciform struc-tures, much better built than many modernchurches. Parker gives several illustrations ofthis, and among them is a famous barn thatexisted in his time at Pilton, Somersetshire, whichin style belonged to our Perpendicular Gothic,not earlier than the reign of Richard II. Shippons, too, like barns, were often longhalls built in bays, and divided into a centralnave and two flanking isles with stalls for thecattle. The long yoke of oxen stood fourabreast in a great stall sixteen feet wide ; cowswere in separate compartments. On both sidesthe animals faced the nave ; and many a labourerslept near them, and found their breath muchbetter than the foul air in a cabin. Those whosleep near cattle awake fresh in the morning,as Charles Reade mentions in The Cloisterand the Hearth. Even to-day, in Frieslandand Saxony, shippon and house are combined
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S 1= HALLS OF THE POOR 177 together under one roof, and the standard of healthis not lower than with us. Professor Meitzen, in Das Deutsche Haus,has much to say about Frisian and Saxon farnis ;and as we are descended from the same stock asthe Saxons and Frisians, we get from ProfessorMeitzen something of the distant past ofEngland. Something: one cannot say morethan that, because our English manor systemhad original characteristics, while retaining manythat were Teutonic. During the Middle Agesa country parish remained a Teutonic settlementof the sixth century, but with modifications ;and amongst these, no doubt, the most importantwere the little villages with small, detachedhomes, separated nurseries for variousness ofcharacter. This applies particularly to SouthernEngland. Hard districts in the North bred aharder race and a conservatism steel-like intemper, Teutonic in a primitive way. As late asShakespeares time there were farming customsin the North not to be found in Southerndist

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