COB HOUSE BUILT BY MR. ERNEST GIMSON,
NEAR BUDLEIGH SALTERTON, DEVON _Frontispiece_
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PISE WAGGON-HOUSE AT NEWLANDS CORNER 18
THE NEWLANDS WAGGON-HOUSE (INTERIOR) 18
THE BEGINNING OF A PISE FRUIT-HOUSE 19
THE FRUIT-HOUSE COMPLETED WITH ROOF OF PEAT BLOCKS
ON ROUGH BOARDING 19
MODEL OF A PISE DE TERRE HOUSE TO BE BUILT IN
THREE SUCCESSIVE STAGES 22
WAYSIDE STATION OF PISE AT SIMONDIUM, SOUTH AFRICA,
DESIGNED BY MR. HERBERT BAKER 23
FRONT AND BACK ELEVATIONS OF COTTAGE DESIGNED BY
SIR EDWIN LUTYENS AND MR. ALBAN SCOTT 28
PLAN OF COTTAGE DESIGNED BY SIR EDWIN LUTYENS
AND MR. ALBAN SCOTT 29
ANOTHER VIEW OF THE COB HOUSE BUILT BY MR.
ERNEST GIMSON, NEAR BUDLEIGH SALTERTON, DEVON 34
A FINE SPECIMEN OF A DEVONSHIRE COB HOUSE 35
A DEVONSHIRE COB FARMHOUSE, PROBABLY BETWEEN
200 AND 300 YEARS OLD 36
A COB-BUILT VILLAGE 37
A DEVONSHIRE FARM, LOCAL MATERIAL (COB) 42
DEVON COUNTRY HOUSE, BUILT OF DEVON COB 43
COB HOUSE TEMP. ELIZABETH, LEWISHILL 44
ANOTHER DEVONSHIRE (COB) FARMHOUSE, WEEKE BARTON 45
CEILINGS OF MODELLED PLASTER FROM OLD COB HOUSES IN DEVON 46
A COB GARDEN-WALL WITH THATCHED COPING 47
PISE PLANT AND IMPLEMENTS 58
DIAGRAM OF MARK V PISE SHUTTERING 88
MARK V SHUTTERING 89
A SIMPLE MOULD FOR PISE BLOCKS 90
BLOCK-MOULDS, LARGE AND SMALL 90
SKETCH OF A PISE HOUSE IN COURSE OF ERECTION 91
THE NEWLANDS CORNER BUILDING 92
THE COTTAGE FROM THE SOUTH-EAST 93
THE GARDEN COURT 93
THE BACKYARD 94
FRAMING THE ROOF 95
AN INTERIOR, SHOWING FIRE-BRICK HEARTH FIRE 95
DETAILS OF CHALK CONSTRUCTION AT AMESBURY 110
COTTAGES AT COLDHARBOUR, AMESBURY 111
THREE CHALK COTTAGES AT HURSLEY PARK 114
MARSH COURT, HAMPSHIRE 116
BRICK-AND-CHALK VAULTING AT THE DEANERY GARDEN, SONNING 117
ONCE CORN HALL, NOW COUNCIL SCHOOL 122
A ROW OF CLAY-LUMP COTTAGES 122
ENGINEERING WORKSHOPS 123