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 178
of attention, the Gothic or Grecian headed iron sashes, figs. 284 and288, would still be found economical. 308. Gardens. We do not think it desirable that there should be a walk round thisbuilding close under the windows, because it would have a tendency to destroy privacy.We would rather give a… … would by all means raise a terrace, two steps high, and four feet broad, round the whole,so as that the building might seem to stand elevated a little above the general surface;and this would give tlie grass-plots or flower-gardens a slope outwards towards the walks 156 COTTAGE, FARM, AND VILLA…
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