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 49
of purpose, this cottage may be said to have something of the expression of architecturalstyle. The beauty of such a dwelling would be greatly heightened by the addition of aterrace parapet, and by ornamental chimney tops, fig. 26 ; and quite a different character … might be given to it, by having the roofing a good deal flatter, and adding cantilevers,(pieces of wood framed into the side of a house, to support such mouldings as may be placedover them,) under the far projecting eaves, so as to form an Italian cornice. Chap. IL A Miscellaneous Collection of…
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