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 580
tiles, 2d. 1200. General Outlines of a Specification to the Nine preceding Designs.-—Dig-ging. The trenches for the foundations to be 2 feet below the surface of the floors, ormore, if necessary, to obtain a good solid foundation. 1201. Masons Work. The foundations to be laid with flat-bedded… … 558 COTTAGE, FARM, AND VILLA ARCHITECTURE. over with small broken stones, forming the thickness of 9 inches. The sleepers to be laidon the inside searccments, and the whole remaining space of 14 inches to be filled up withsolid mason-work of stone and lime properly packed; to have a coat of plaster…
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