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 159
§ 179.fig. 15S. 258. Construction. This building having only one story, the walls may be made ofearth, smoothed, and lime-whited externally; and lathed and plastered inside. Thecolumns of the porch may be portions of the trunks of fir or pine trees, with the bark re-moved, and the knots and other… … 259. General Estimate- Cubiccontents of the two houses, 15,868at 6d. per foot, £396 : 14s. ; at4rf., £264 : 95.: M. ; and at 3d.,£198; 7s. 260. Remarks. Looking atthe elevation, we should say thatthis is a simple and somewhatelegant Design ; and at the plan,that it appears convenient. Whenwe…
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