stone-cropped

Updated: May 6, 2025

For the house, with its round-shouldered Jacobean gables, its stone-cropped roof, lichen-spotted plaster, and ill-kept yew hedge, has an air of resignation to decay, well-bred but spiritless, and communicates it to the whole of its small landscape.

Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch - Two Sides of the Face: Midwinter Tales