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 236
^x(€^!^X^ 433. General Estimate. Cubic contents, 21,660 feet, at 6c/. per foot, ^^541 : 10s.; at4d., £361 ; and at 3d., £210 : 15s. 434. Remarks. No one can mistake the expression of this Design, who has everseen an English cottage. It pretends to be nothing more than what it is, and might be … mistaken for a copy from nature. It seems to us to want dignity, which might begiven by heightening the windows of the parlour-floor, and by a surrounding terrace.The ground plan is very convenient.
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