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 213
Now, on looking a» the ground plan of the Design before us, we shall find thatthe entrance front and the back front are regular and symmetrical in their generalmasses, and yet irregular in the details of these masses; that is, in the disposition ofthe doors and windows. In the apartment a, for… … COTTAGE DWELLINGS IN VARIOUS STYLES. 191 ment would have been more suitable for a room, the windows of which must necessarilybe darkened by having so wide a portico over them. Again, the doors from this roominto e and f ought to have been opposite to each other, in order to maintain the…
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