Also if you continue the lines at the far side of the roof in their downward direction, they will meet at a point immediately below the V.P. If you now continue the lines of the near side of the roof in their upward direction, you will find they meet at a point immediately over the V.P. This skeleton house explains the way we should make a drawing of it. The line joining the tops of two uprights (1 to 2) will now form the ridge-pole, and the skeleton of the roof will be completed by rafters leaning from the top corners of the walls to the ends of the ridge-pole respectively. On the upright at the near end of the building we mark the height of the roof (2), and join that mark to that V P to which the sides of the building tend. The walls built, we raise an up right through the middle of both the end walls. To make this quite clear we will suppose the walls to be of glass (Fig. When we look towards one corner of the building, the side and end walls become foreshortened, but we still build the gable over one end in the same way as over the end when seen full-face (in Fig. Decide on the pitch of the roof and mark it by a dot on the upright, join that dot to the top corners of the end wall, and continue the roof sufficiently to form the eaves (Fig. Draw the end of the building on which the roof is to rest, cross it by diagonals, and raise an upright where they meet. We have but to draw two gables and join them by a roof. Nothing could be easier to draw than the gable, but one must be careful not to let its ends inadvertently lean forward or backwards. The break in the outline caused by the hip-roof and the little gable that tops it, when seen from different points of view, present much variety in shape, suggestive of more elaborate design (Illus. This arrangement is often beautiful in its proportions. At the back of the cottage the main roof may be continued to within four or five feet (sometimes less) of the ground. In many buildings the hip-rcof is continued downwards from the height of the eaves by a lean-to forming the roof of the woodshed. One or both ends of the main roof may be hipped, with the apex of the hip-roof surmounted by a little gable. It is oblong in plan, and covered lengthways by a high-pitched roof of tiles or stone slabs, or by a still steeper one of thatch. The farm or cottage is commonly a two-storied one half-timbered, and set on a low foundation wall of rough stone. The recurrence and accidental grouping of a few prevailing shapes, themselves simple in form, bring about an infinite variety in the sky-line of a Sussex homestead. We cannot do better than take their construction piecemeal. My drawings incidentally present buildings that are typical of some Surrey and Sussex villages. Some outstanding features of cottages may, however, without straying from our subject, be illustrated, as they afford instances for the practical application of Perspective rules. As this book deals only with Perspective, a description of cottage architecture would be out of bounds.
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