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 195
DeaDis proposed Va-riation in his Afethod ofbuilding. Instead of thebrick on edge course, halfbricks may be used as stretch-ers, figs. 310, 311, and 312 ;the bricks being divided lon-gitudinally, by drawing aknife or other sharp instru-ment about half through them, while in a state between wet and… … 311 312 burned, the bricks would (in Britain) be subjected to a double duty ; and partly becausethe half bricks, thus treated, cost less, and are less liable to warp in the kiln, than ifmoulded separately. A fair charge for removing bricks from the hack (the stock orpile on which they are placed to…
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