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Examples
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The town has kept less of the past than Farnham; perhaps it had less to keep; but it has some good red seventeenth-century houses, weather-tiled gables, and tall brick chimneys.
Highways and Byways in Surrey Eric Parker 1912
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Here a long low brick wall edges the road, mellow and lichened; here a double-gabled, weather-tiled building stands next to a patch of old brick painted the newest possible yellow.
Highways and Byways in Surrey Eric Parker 1912
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A few half-timbered and weather-tiled cottages, which have served as models for newer neighbours, some pollarded elms, a broad smooth road and dusty jasmine -- Milford is the first village on the highway running south from Godalming, and on a summer Saturday is less a village than a road.
Highways and Byways in Surrey Eric Parker 1912
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The old farm-house, weather-tiled to the ground, took almost the colour of a blood-ruby in the afternoon light.
Puck of Pook’s Hill Rudyard Kipling 1900
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The old farmhouse, weather-tiled to the ground, took almost the colour of a blood-ruby in the afternoon light.
Puck of Pook's Hill Rudyard Kipling 1900
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