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 169
283. General Estimate. Tht two houses contain 12,986 cubic feet, which, at 6<i perfoot, is i324: ir>5. ; at 4d., £216 : 8s. : Sd. ; and at 3d., £162: 6s.: 6d. 284. Eemarh- There is an appearance of comfort about these cottages, and yetthere is something mean in the roof slouching down over… … is almost certain to leak, or to become choked up, more especially when the roof isthatched. The building, however, is so far expressive of its purposes, that it can neveroe mistaken for any thing else than a cottage ; and, on the whole, is ratlier picturesqu jthan otherwise. Design XL. Two…
Architecture, Domestic · Furniture
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