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This composite drawing of sections and elevations describes a detail from a house in Craigside, one of the many works by the Victorian master architect Richard Norman Shaw. His drawings are great examples of the use of colour in architectural drawing, they also show the increased complexity of architecture which emerged with the structural innovations developed in the nineteenth century. Steel-framed structures required structural engineers to produce new types of detailed drawings.

Norman Shaw was perhaps the greatest architect of the later Victorian period. His office was lively, training many of the leading architects of the next generation; stylistically, the practice led, and others followed. He played a central role in establishing the vernacular revival, a style that looked beyond Gothic sources to create a flexible, picturesque architecture. Built into a hillside, the building's deatails are derived from seventeenth-century English architecture.