INDEX
INDEX
Chalk walls, 18
Cheap materials, the search for, 13
Pisé, experiments with, 15
Pliny on Pisé de terre, 25
Building materials, shortage of, 26
“Ersatz” products introduced during the War, 26
House famine, the, 27
Local materials, use of, to avoid transport, 29
Lutyens, Sir Edwin, and Mr. Alban Scott, cottage by, 30
Rural housing, suitability of cob and pisé for, 28
Allen, Mr. C. B., his reference to Devon cob, quoted, 47
Baring-Gould, Rev. S., on cob, quoted, 47
Beauty of cob, 35
Bernard, Mr. Charles, his account of Sir Walter Raleigh’s cob house, 45, 46
Book of the West, The, by Rev. S. Baring-Gould, reference to cob in, quoted, 47
Chimneys, 44
Cob tradition, 52
Composition, 36
Cottage-Building, reference to cob in, quoted, 47
Country Life, letter to, relating to cob work, quoted, 115, 116
Devon cob, 47
Drying, 39
Elizabethan cob houses still existing, 34
Former conditions returned, 52
Foundations and base, 40; result of bad, 34
Fulford, Mr., of Great Fulford, on cob, 50-52
Gimson, Mr., his description of building cob, quoted, 35
Hayes Barton, Sir Walter Raleigh’s house at, 45, 46
Hipped roofs, 41
Mixing, 37
Northcote, Lady Rosalind, her description of Sir Walter Raleigh’s house, 46
Primitive methods, 47
Protection, 43
Protective wash, 51
Raleigh, Sir Walter, his cob house at Hayes Barton, 45, 46
Rats, 44
Reed thatch, 46
Rendering, 51
Roofing, 51
Shuttering, 51
Strength, 44
Thickness of walls, 40
Traditional building material in Devon and Wessex, 33
Training of ex-soldiers, 52
Bolts, 86
Bonders, 69
Building procedure, 71, 72, 74, 75
Corners, 68
Cyclopædia, or Universal Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Literature, on pisé, quoted, 59-71
Damp-course, 86
Definition of Pisé de terre, 57, 59
Durability, 82
Earthwork, A Manual on, quoted, 73-76
Empandeni, pisé work executed at, 78, 79, 80
Excavation, 86
Etah Jail, pisé work executed at, 76, 77, 78
Fillet, 87
Floating, 86
Foundations, 74
Frames, 87
France, introduction of pisé into, 57
Gorffon, Monsieur, reference to his treatise on pisé, 57
History, 57
Indian and Colonial practice, 73-88
Introduced into France by the Romans, 57
Journal de Physique, by the Abbé Rozier, quoted, 58
Lintels, 87
Locale, 58
New South Wales, pisé work in, 81-88
Origin, 58
Picture-rail, 87
Plastering, 75
Pliny, references to his account of pisé, 25, 57
Protection, 75
Rain, 67
Rate of work, 63
Rendering, 70
Rozier, the Abbé, his Journal de Physique, quoted, 58
Shutter ties, 73
Skirting, 87
Soil blending, 64
tests, 63
to ascertain quality of, 65
Speed of building, 70
Stability, 82
Strength, 69
Theory and science of pisé, the, 62-73
Ventilators, 86
Virtues of pisé, 72
Chalk compost, historical, 107
composition and uses, 108, 109
Chalk conglomerate, 114
Chimneys, 110
External rendering, 110
Frost, 109
Garden walls, 111
House walls, 112
Old and modern examples, 112-115
Rats and chalk, 116
Rendering, 110
Repairs, 110
Roof, 111
Strength, 110
Timber, 109
Winterslow cottages, the, 115, 116
IV—Unburned Clay and Earth Bricks:
“Adobe,” use of, in New South Wales, 124
Age of clay-lump buildings, 124
East Anglia, use of sun-dried bricks in, 121
Method of making, 121
New South Wales, use of sun-dried bricks in, 124
Skipper, Mr., on sun-dried bricks, quoted, 121
Strength of clay-lump walls, 124
Thickness of clay-lump walls, 122-124
Cold-water paint, recipe for, 129
Cost, an analysis of building, 131
Country Life, letter to, relating to cob work, quoted, 132, 133
Distempers, recipes for, 129
Local materials, importance of using, 130, 131
Weight of building materials, table of, 130