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 225
s, in perfect designs, whatever meets the eye, whether in the backor front, ought to be noble. Placed on the outskirts of a wood, or half surrounded byan orchard, in the manner shown in fig. 260, § 280, it would be unexceptionable. Design LXIIL — Two Dwellings, of Two Rooms each, under One Roof.… … JF^ 3-J7 406. Construction. Nothing appears to require notice under this head, which maynot be gathered from preceding designs ; we may remark, however, that porches of thekind here shown, in many parts of the country, might be covered with lead, cheaper thanthey can be with slate, because in each…
Architecture, Domestic · Furniture
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