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 291
Britain, where the cottage windows are generally low and broad, nothing adds moredignity of character to a dwelling than heightening the windows ; because high windowsare expressive of lofty rooms. Where height cannot be given, and the obvious tendencyof the openings is to width, the effect of the…
Architecture, Domestic · Furniture
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