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cottages: small rural houses. An English country cottage is a residence, usually with multiple rooms and a garden full of flowers, and is unrelated to the American word used as a synonym for cabin.

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Frontispiece: Cranbrook, Kent

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Frontispiece: Cranbrook, KentOld English Country Cottages (1906)

From a water-colour drawing by Herbert Alexander, A.R.W.S.

Keywords: cottages, flowers, gardens, houses, colour

Places shown: Cranbrook; Kent; England

Added: 2004-07-29

Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested

Frontispiece: Cranbrook, Kent

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Frontispiece: Cranbrook, KentOld English Country Cottages (1906)

From a water-colour drawing by Herbert Alexander, A.R.W.S.

Cropped version suitable for screen background, lightened

Keywords: cottages, flowers, gardens, houses, colour, wallpaper, backgrounds

Places shown: Cranbrook; Kent; England

Added: 2004-07-31

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Frontispiece: Cranbrook, Kent

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Frontispiece: Cranbrook, KentOld English Country Cottages (1906)

From a water-colour drawing by Herbert Alexander, A.R.W.S.

Cropped version suitable for screen background

Keywords: cottages, flowers, gardens, houses, colour, wallpaper, backgrounds

Places shown: Cranbrook; Kent; England

Added: 2004-07-29

Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested

Hollingbourne, Kent

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Hollingbourne, KentOld English Country Cottages (1906)

A half-timbered cottage in Kent. The steep tiled roof was probably once thatched. From a water-colour drawing by Mrs. Allingham, R.W.S. The image is also marked “by permission of Mrs. Lionel Beddingt [...]

Keywords: cottages, flowers, moss, rooves, gardens, houses, colour, people, birds, colour, christmas

Places shown: Hollingbourne; Kent; England

Added: 2004-07-31

Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested

Tonbridge, Kent

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Tonbridge, KentOld English Country Cottages (1906)

Sketch of an Elizabethan cottage in Kent.

“Kent, Sussex and Surrey are three of the most delightful counties in England”

Keywords: houses, cottages, windows, sketches, greyscale

Places shown: Tonbridge; Kent; England

Added: 2004-07-31

Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested

Biddenden, Kent

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Biddenden, KentOld English Country Cottages (1906)

Signed Sydney R Jones 1906.

Biddenden village Web site

Keywords: cottages, houses, windows, sketches, wallpaper, backgrounds, greyscale

Places shown: Biddenden; Kent; England

Added: 2005-07-16

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Cranbrook, Kent

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Cranbrook, KentOld English Country Cottages (1906)

Signed SRJ (Sydney R Jones) 1906. George and Frederick Hardy, George O’Neil and Thomas Webster formed the Cranbrook Art Colony here in the 1900s. Historic Kent notes about the village of Cranbrook “Ke [...]

Keywords: streets, cottages, sketches, greyscale

Places shown: Cranbrook; Kent; England

Added: 2005-07-24

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166.—Two dogs in Scotland

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166.—Two dogs in ScotlandNew Specimen of Cast-Metal Ornaments and Wood Types (1840)

Two dogs in the Scottish highlands, with a crofter’s cottage in the background. The dogs are border collies, I think: sheepdogs.

Keywords: dogs, hills, cottages, wallpaper, backgrounds, colour

Places shown: Scotland

Added: 2011-04-09

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The Gardener

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The GardenerSome British Ballads (1919)

A smiling young man with hauntingly blue eyes stands smiling at the gate to his thatched country cottage. A lady with a country-style scarf and dress addresses him. “ The gardener stands in his bower [...]

Keywords: cottages, colour, people, thatched cottages

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-05-29

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Crawley, Sussex

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Crawley, SussexOld English Country Cottages (1906)

This old farmhouse or cottage has tile siding on the walls.

Keywords: cottages, birds, buildings, windows, chimneys, greyscale

Places shown: Crawley; Sussex; England

Added: 2010-04-15

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Haslemere, Surrey

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Haslemere, SurreyOld English Country Cottages (1906)

A young woman stands at the gate to an English cottage garden. She holds a child in her arms, and she wears a long dress and a somewhat soiled apron. The gate is set in a thick hedge, but we can see s [...]

Keywords: cottages, people, flowers, colour

Places shown: Haslemere; Surrey; England

Added: 2008-08-09

Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested

Chiddingfold, Surry (hand-coloured version)

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Chiddingfold, Surry (hand-coloured version)Contributed Images (2004)

A hand-coloured version of Chiddingford; the original picture was by Sidney Jones in 1906; Liam Quin did the colouring, rather hastily.

Keywords: cottages, colour

Places shown: Chiddingfold; Surrey; England

Added: 2008-08-24

Image status: copyright by the respective artist or artists and must not be reproduced in any form witout permission

Chiddingfold, Surrey

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Chiddingfold, SurreyOld English Country Cottages (1906)

A cottage in Chiddingfold, Surrey (in the South of England), showing the use of tile to cover the upper storey’s walls and the chimney. It is signed by Sidney Jones and dated 1906. Hand-coloured vers [...]

Keywords: cottages, greyscale

Places shown: Chiddingfold; Surrey; England

Added: 2008-08-24

Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested

Steep, Hampshire

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Steep, HampshireOld English Country Cottages (1906)

From a water-colour drawing by Walter Tyndale. An English house wth a steep tiled roof, probably originally thatched, and with stone mullioned windows. Topiary and careful landscaping give a well-kept [...]

Keywords: houses, cottages, roofs, gardens, chimneys, dormer windows, windows, topiary, colour

Places shown: Steep; Hampshire; England

Added: 2012-10-22

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Restoration of Old Cottage at Steep Petersfield

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Restoration of Old Cottage at Steep PetersfieldOld English Country Cottages (1906)

STEEP, HAMPSHIRE. From a water-colour drawing by Walter Tyndale. The only district where stone-slated roofs were hipped was in the heart of the tile counties. Here there are a number, the builders me [...]

Keywords: cottages, art, houses, roofs, chimneys, colour, wallpaper, backgrounds

Places shown: Steep; Hampshire; England

Added: 2012-10-30

Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested

Nether Alderly, Cheshire

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Nether Alderly, CheshireOld English Country Cottages (1906)

“To the great majority of the public, the study of architecture is generally of little interest, but these cottages of black-and-white, more especially those of Cheshire, have always found a place in [...]

Keywords: cottages, houses, greyscale

Places shown: Nether Alderley; Cheshire; England

Added: 2006-03-23

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Get Up and Bar the Door

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Get Up and Bar the DoorSome British Ballads (1919)

The house-wife carries a hot pan of stew by the handle, a cat sits on the hearth by, one assumes, the fire, and the husband looks to his wife even as she in turn looks to the door. It fell about the [...]

Keywords: people, interiors, cottages, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2008-09-22

Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested

Long Wittenham, Oxfordshire.

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Long Wittenham, Oxfordshire.Old English Country Cottages (1906)

From a water-colour by Wilfrid Ball, R.E. An English country cottage in Spring or perhaps late Summer. There’s something particularly charming about thatched english cottages. The village of Long Witt [...]

Keywords: cottages, houses, colour

Places shown: Long Wittenham; Oxfordshire; England

Added: 2008-02-19

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Long Wittenham, Oxfordshire (Wide-screen background version)

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Long Wittenham, Oxfordshire (Wide-screen background version)Old English Country Cottages (1906)

A version of Wilfrid Ball’s painting of a thatched house in the English village of Long Wittenham made to fit a wide-screen or high-definition screen, for use as a wallpaper or desktop background imag [...]

Keywords: backgrounds, cottages, colour

Places shown: Long Wittenham; Oxfordshire; England

Added: 2008-02-19

Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested

Suckley, Worcestershire.

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Suckley, Worcestershire.Old English Country Cottages (1906)

From a water-colour drawing by E. A. Chadwick.

A brick cottage, with a half-timbered part. A girl kneels and another person, probably a child, seems to be talking with her. Lots of trees.

Keywords: cottages, houses, people, children, trees, colour, christmas, wallpaper, backgrounds

Places shown: Suckley; Worcestershire; England

Added: 2006-10-07

Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested

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