An encyclopædia of cottage, farm, and villa architecture and furniture : containing numerous designs for dwellings from the cottage to the villa including farm houses, farmeries, and other agricultural buildings, several designs for country inns, public houses, and parochial schools, with the requisite fittings-up fixtures and furniture ; and appropriate offices, gardens and garden scenery ; each design accompanied by analytical and critical marks illustrative of the principles of archtiectural science and taste on whihc it is composed (1836)
Loudon, J. C. (John Claudius), 1783-1843 · London : Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longmans, and sold by John Weale, at the Architectural Library, High Holborn · leaf 1016
spect tower, as before recom-mended, and the habitable part of the remainder is occupied as a public-house, and asdwellings for labourers. In many parks in England, the farm buildings are placed onrising grounds, so as to form conspicuous objects in the views from the house ; and theirexterior… … are worse understood. A rockery is too frequently a mere mass of stories of different sizesand kinds, perhaps mixed with bricks, piled together without any attempt at expression orcharacter; in short, more as a nidus for a particular description of plants, than for effectas a mass of visible rock,…
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