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 184
he space where the boiler is placed sunkthree feet below the general level. Thewindows are shown with Gothic labels,and the door is ledged with ornamentalhinges (fig. 298), on a scale of threefourths of an inch to a foot. The gableend is finished with a barge-board (fig.299), to a scale of three… … 162 COTTAGE, FARM, AND VILLA ARCHITECTLIIE. 319. Expression. Though we like the arrangement of this building in the interior,yet we by no means approve of the external expression. The projection of the roof atthe eaves, which is here two feet, does not belong to the Gothic style ; and to place299…
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