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 116
ravel, or very coarse sand; and, lastly, witha finishing coat of finer material. 193. General Estimate. Cubic contents 14,622 feet, at Qd. per foot, £365:11*.; At Ad.,£243 : 14s.; and at M., £182 : 15s : Qd. 194. Expression. Thiscottage pretends to no-thing more than whatit is ; a simple,… … of expense and trouble, as comfortable as even a first-rate mansioncould possibly be (see § 34). This would also greatly diminishthe expense of fuel, the labour attendant on keeping up fires,and that of cleaning fireplaces. As a finish to this cottage, theplatform may be bordered with a neat hedge…
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