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 290
cting parts, so as to allow theyellow to be seen through it. The greatest ornaments to cottage doors are, the porch,the penthouse roof, and the projecting canopy or shelf supported by brackets; butthese may be considered as already disposed of. 552. Windows may be ornamented in a great variety of… … shows outside reveals of at least six inches in depth, and that the thickness of the frame-work is not more than an inch, which will still leave five inches of reveal; a deep revealbeing always desirable, as expressive of the thickness and strength of the walls. To dis-guise windows placed in…
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