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 168
nk,k. There is a grass-plot to each cottage; and a garden in front, and along one side ;behind may be a grass field or lawn. 282. Construction. The walls, observes our contributor, may be of stone, ormud; the roofs may be thatched with straw or reeds, and wattled down at the ridgewith hazel rods,… … term for what in England is called the reveal of a window, viz. p, in fig. 262 ; andwhat in Scotland is called the back-filled ^ rabbet, or the back-filled rabbet-head, is in England called the facing, or architrave, viz., q, in fig. 262, projecting an inch all round. This term is, however, only…
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