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 255
jjrofiision and variety, as soon as a new houseis inhabited, or an old one changes its tenant: thus,as it were, proclaiming from the house-top, that theArchitect and builder have been unsuccessful, andthat some variety or other of the tinkers or potterswhims, to charm or coax out the smoke, has… … weather-boarded, and roofed with pantiles. The ceiling of the living-room is curbed,or coved at the sides (see the section fig. 412), by which means some addition is made toits height from the roof. Further details of construction will be found in the followingspecification and estimate; which, it…
Architecture, Domestic · Furniture
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