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 246
Design XI.; or in various otherforms, as in figs. 378 to 385. As thechief characteristic beauty of thismanner of building depends on thegables, we have given these differentforms, which the reader may vary atpleasure. The next characteristicis the storm-head windows, fig. 386;and these admit of as… … 2^4. COTTAGE, FARM, AND VILLA ARCHITECTURE. and very small gable windows are frequently introduced, partly to give character, but chieflyfor ventilation ; and these also may be considerably varied. It is remarkable that houses inthis style, which is evidently one attended with considerable expense…
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