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
elf; a beauty which can be conveyed by lines in correct perspective,without any reference to either shading, colouring, or accompaniments. Examined bythese tests, some of the most showy works on Cottage Architecture, of the present day, willbe found to be little better than pictures for tlie eye;… … dwellings, of two rooms and two bed closets, with a back kitchen, pantry, and privy, toeach, might be obtained under a very handsome exterior. Fig. 250 shows the perspectiveelevation of the principal front, in which a close porch, with square columns, is showninstead of an open one, with round…
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