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 285
conveythe idea that these openings are surrounded by stone; but there is no evidence that thesestone framings rest on any thing but plaster; the mind, therefore, does not follow up theimpression made by the eye, and the imitation stone facings, for want of imitation sup-port below them to carry on… … fercnt would be the effect! In the first case, fig. 459, the vertical bond is produced, or,in other words, the roof is supported, by the squared stones at the angles, and the hewnstones forming the piers containing tlie windows; and in the latter case, fig. 460, theroof is supi^orted by the…
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