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 215
in a great 192 COTTAGE, FARM, AND VILLA ARCHITECTURE. measure lost in the atmosphere. The divisions g and h should obviously be transposed;because the one would be improved by heat, and the other injured by it. In the chamberfloor, a division wall is shown, so as to give to eacli liouse its portion… … come down to the floor. Finally, the chimney stacks are too low, and the shaftii tooshort, for grandeur and elegance of effect. We would change the plan as in fig. 336,and the elevation as in fig. 337.
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