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 107
roof isthatched. The three-quarter columns shown in the front elevation, are supposed to be ofwood; and the manner in which they are attached to the walls may be seen in fig. 155, which.is a section through the lean-to from back to front. 176. General Estimate. Cubic contents, 11,142 feet, at firf.… … be unpleasing; but strictly examined on scientific principles, it is full of faults. The three-quarter columns, supporting nothing but thatch, are absurdities : they are of no use as piers,because the wall is strong enough without them ;and they are the more superfluous, because theyare attached to…
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