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 218
to keep out the heat in summer, and to keep it in during winter.One fireplace might, by means of a cast-iron back, be made to serve both apartments,and an oven and boiler might be added. It is evident, that, by this mode of proceeding,a verj comfortable interior might be included in a very simple,… … plastering would be required, provided rubbed bricks were used. Tliis adds greatly tothe durability of the surface of rooms, and prevents them from being injured bychildren, and idle people, in countries where the labouring classes are not yet accustomedto comfortable dwellings. In this ground…
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