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 50
hich follow,as only a few inches below the surfaceof the ground, h; partly because thefootings being covered and surroundedby the platform, are not likely to be after-wards disturbed ; and partly becausevery little depth of foundation is wantedfor buildings, generally of one, and sel-dom of more… … ;,8 COTTAGE, FARM, AND VILLA ARCHITECTURE. carpenter, by the section of a portion of the wall and roof, drawn to a scale of half aninch to a foot, fig. 27, i. The wall of the court-yard in countries where flag-stones aboundmay be formed of a continuous line of these stones fixed in the earth, edge…
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