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 204
n which he might give the cottage a more agree-able appearance; and Isuggested the alteration shown in fig. 318, which may serve as anexample in what manner a cottage, with the inside sufficiently comfortable, may be altered,so as to change an ugly outside, at little trouble and expense, to one… … 360. Improved State, fig. 318. The object in the above alteration is, to break thestraight horizontal lines, and thus improve the appearance of a very ugly roof. This isdone by introducing a pediment, or gable, with barge boards over the centre window,and by bringing the roof lower down at the…
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