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 187
f. £228 : 6s. : Sd. ; and at3d., £171 : 5s. 327. Remarks. There is a simplicity and grandeur inthe elevation of this cottage, which raises it above the cha-racter of a dwelling of the humblest class. The massivechimney stack corresponds well with the simplicity of theroof; the effect of which is… … a massive and architectural effect, forming ? very complete system of vertical and hori-zontal bond or chain work, as tlie Frenchterm it; and they are supported and har-monised by the horizontal panels in thecliimney stack. Where the perfection ofarchitectural expression is aimed at, allwalls…
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