We find all along the Kentish sea-coast houses and cottages, the chief materials entering into the construction of which are flint, sometimes cut so as to form the surface of their walls, and sometimes left irregular in shape, and the wall surfaces chiefly formed by the mortar in which the stones are embedded. This is called flint rubble. Where the flint is cut to a surface the angles, doorways, and window openings are constructed of stone or brick, and these are the portions of the building which receive ornamentation and give the character to the design, but where the flint is uncut and used as rubble, not unfrequently the whole surface is covered with a coating of plaster which is adorned in various ways, sometimes by simply drawing over it a toothed implement like a saw, sometimes by stamping or “pargeting,” and occasionally by mixing the plaster with coloured materials of several shades and arranging them in patterns. This last method is somewhat akin to what the Italians call “sgraffito.” I do not think that genuine sgraffito was ever executed in England, but that in some parts of this country they obtained a very similar effect by other means. In genuine sgraffito a layer of dark coloured plaster is placed over the wall, and when that is dry a layer of white or lighter coloured plaster is spread over it while wet: this second coating is scraped away in places so as to form a pattern or design over the darker material. The ornamentation of which we give a sketch from Calais-Court, near Dover, appears to have been done by coloured plasters placed side by side, not one over the other. We are not, however, quite sure about this, as the lower portions of the work have either been destroyed or never executed, so that it is difficult to examine it closely. The two wheel patterns are very curious and are probably inspired by the wheel windows of ancient churches. One of them is not unlike the east window of Barfreston church a few miles away. This kind of imitation of wheel windows is not uncommon in old decoration. The church of Chastleton in Oxfordshire has a floor of encaustic tiling entirely composed of this ornamentation. It is difficult to ascribe any exact date to this work at Calais-Court; it is probably not earlier than the sixteenth century. The house or cottage has been so much pulled about and altered, at later periods, that it is impossible to say whether it forms a portion of a larger structure or was always of its present humble proportions.