The architecture of country houses : including designs for cottages, farm houses, and villas, with remarks on interiors, furniture, and the best modes of warming and ventilating (1851)
Downing, A. J. (Andrew Jackson), 1815-1852, Anderson, Alexander, 1775-1870 · New York : D. Appleton & Company, 200 Broadway ; Philadelphia : Geo S. Appleton, 164 Chestnut-Street · leaf 246
r, and in New York by Chilson, Allen, Walker & Co., 351 Broadway. MISCELLANEOUS DETAILS. 193 The cool air enters these openings, and immediately rises andpasses out of the ventilator, 5, thus maintaining a constantcirculation of fresh air in the direction shown by the arrows. In the case of… … [Fig. 89. Ventilation of Attic Bed-room.] in which a is the bed-room. Instead of lathing and plasteringthe ceiling on the under side of the rafters, a hollow space, c, ofsix inches or more, should be left between the roof and theceiling of the cottage, e. By providing apertures for theadmission of…
Architecture, Domestic
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