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 390
[TTTFt. 10 … the ceiling, as shown in the section. To admit of raising the ceiling, a chain of purlins,fig. 750, y, is placed in the direction shown by the dotted line c b d, &c., in fig. 749, andis carried round the house. These purlins are supported by the cross walls; and onthem, and on the wall…
Architecture, Domestic · Furniture
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