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 361
which indicates both talent and a love of home in the occupant.It would be easy to introduce the same taste in Britain, if it were once properly pointedout to young females, and exemplified by the comparatively enlightened cottager; forexample, in the dwellings of the married upper servants of… … ]^ which is fixed by screw nails to the architrave of the window. The pole is kept securelyin its place by the screw-pin, b, which passes through the bracket, and is screwed intothe pole so as to keep it quite firm. On the pole are fourteen rings, generally of brass,but for a common cottage they…
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