7 Basil Oliver, Old Houses and Village Buildings in East Anglia, Norfolk, Suffolk and Essex (London, 1912); Arthur Oswald, Country Houses of Kent (London, 1933); Abbott Cummings observes of the “hall and parlor” plan of the Mayflower Cottage of Colne Engaine, Essex, that “this well established plan type set a pattern which has persisted through three and a half centuries and survives today in modified form in the modern American builder’s vocabulary of styles as Garrison, Colonial and Cape Cod house.” (Framed Houses of Massachusetts Bay, 6.)
See also Allen G. Noble, Wood, Brick and Stone, The North American Settlement Landscape; vol I, Houses (Amherst, 1984), 23-25; Alfred E. Poor, Colonial Architecture of Cape Cod, Nantucket and Martha’s Vineyard (New York, 1932); Ernest A. Connally, “The Cape Cod House,” SAHJ, 19 (1960), 47-56; Henry Glassie, Pattern in the Material Folk Culture of the Eastern United States (Philadelphia, 1968), 128-30, discusses the spread of the Cape Cod house through upstate New York and the Old Northwest (the states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan and Wisconsin).
8 For an example from central Kent, see Chalkin, Kent, 237.
9 This structure was destroyed in the 18th century; it is known through a drawing of doubtful authenticity, reproduced in Cummings, Framed Houses of Massachusetts Bay, 144.
10 Penoyre and Penoyre, Houses in the Landscape, 78.
11Ibid.