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 278
t s t .V t formed as in fig. 455 (one fourth of the full size), which requires no explanation,roofing is generally completed by a tarpawlinj Thewhich is thrown over the rafters, and, COTTAGE DWELLINGS IN VARIOUS STYLES. 255 … having strings on the under side, is made tight by them to the rafters, while it is keptclose down at the eaves by lines which are sewed along the margin of the canvass, andtied tight at the angles. All that is now wanting to complete the cottage are eight shortposts, on which to place the…
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