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 230
t of span, and with the least loss of interior room. Its durability willdepend on the application of oil or tar paints : for barns, sheep-houses, and various othercountry buildings, and for all manner of sheds, both in town and country, it is par-ticularly suitable. As the invention has only been… … feet, its vsidth 40 feet, and the height of the columns on which the roof is supported12 feet. The columns are of cast iron, a gutter of which metal is continued fromcolumn to column, the whole length of the roof; and in the gutter rests the edge of theroof. The arch is formed of several sheets of…
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