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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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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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