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 627
604. COTTAGE, FARM, AND VILLA ARCHITECTURE. J163 … Ft. 40 Li- on which they rest may be three inches broad, and five inches deep, also cast hollow.The thickness of the metal, in eithercase, need not exceed a quarter of aninch ; as the hollow in the centre, byadmitting a current of air, keeps thebars cool, and prevents their decay. It isto be…
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