INDEX
Chalk walls, [18]
Cheap materials, the search for, [13]
Pisé de craie, [16], [17], [107]
Pisé, experiments with, [15]
Pliny on Pisé de terre, [25]
Rammed chalk, [16], [17], [107]
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]
Carpentry and joinery, [41], [42]
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]
Fruit walls, of cob, [47], [48]
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]
Masonry and carpentry, [41], [42]
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]
Method of working, [60], [61], [62]
New South Wales, pisé work in, [81]-[88]
Origin, [58]
Picture-rail, [87]
Plant required, [85], [89], [90]
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]
Wire netting, use of, [87], [88]
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]
Whitewash, recipes for, [127], [128]
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[Transcriber’s Notes]
The two headnotes Pisé—a South African Lead and The Discovery of the Old were transposed to fit the text. They were originally printed on pages 25 and 23, respectively.
[A] Transcriber’s Footnote:
Pliny, Natural History, Bk. XXXV, chapter xlviii, quoted at end of Introduction:
“Have we not in Africa and in Spain walls of earth, known as ‘formocean’ walls? From the fact that they are moulded, rather than built, by enclosing earth within a frame of boards, constructed on either side. These walls will last for centuries, are proof against rain, wind, and fire, and are superior in solidity to any cement. Even at this day Spain still holds watch-towers that were erected by Hannibal.”
The standard numbering of this passage is XXXV.lxi. With punctuation and capitalization adjusted by transcriber to match author’s translation:
Quid non in Africa Hispaniaque e terra parietes, quos appellant ‘formaceos’, quoniam in forma circumdatis ii utrimque tabulis inferciuntur verius quam struuntur? Aevis durant, incorrupti imbribus, ventis, ignibus omnique caemento firmiores. Spectat etiam nunc speculas Hannibalis Hispania terrenasque turres iugis montium inpositas.