THE GIRL’S OWN PAPER
Vol. XX.—No. 1028.]
[Price One Penny.
SEPTEMBER 9, 1899.
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OLD ENGLISH COTTAGE HOMES.
VARIETIES.
THE HOUSE WITH THE VERANDAH.
HOUSEHOLD HINTS.
“UPS AND DOWNS.”
THINGS IN SEASON, IN MARKET AND KITCHEN.
THE ROMANTICISM OF BEETHOVEN.
SHEILA’S COUSIN EFFIE.
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS.
ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS.
OLD ENGLISH COTTAGE HOMES;
OR,
VILLAGE ARCHITECTURE OF BYGONE TIMES.
AT ARMINGHALL, NORFOLK.
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PART XII.
At the commencement of these papers weattempted to describe the growth of Englishvillages and their origin as the surroundingadjuncts of the villa, or residence of the proprietorof the district, or lord of the soil. InRoman times this residence was called a villa;in Saxon and Norman times itbecame a castle, and after thatimportant wave of civilisationwhich passed over this countryin the 13th century, curtailingthe power of the barons, itbecame “the manor house.”Now although the manorhouse of the 14th century wasa less formidable building thanthe Norman castle, it wasgenerally an important structure,and at times possessedconsiderable architecturalbeauty. Very few early manorhouses are perfect now, or inany way complete, as theywere nearly ruined, if notdestroyed, during the “Warsof the Roses.” Sometimes,however, we may still tracefragments of them attachedto modern cottages or houses.The finest fragment of thekind we know is to be seen atthe little village of Arminghall,about ten miles fromNorwich. A cottage or smallfarmhouse here possesses adoorway which is, perhaps,the finest example of domesticGothic architecture in thecountry. It is improbablethat it was originally intendedto serve its present use as anentrance to a cottage porch,and the traditions of theplace point to its having beena fragment of an ancientmanor house, called by thepeople “The Old Hall.”Little or nothing seems to beknown about it, and if it reallydid form a portion of someancient mansion, with thesolitary exception of this arc