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 635
1179 is anisometrical view. The letter a represents the oak sill 6 feet long, 14 inches by 7 inches,the top of which is level with the ground; to this sill, the upright, b, 14 inches by 9inches, is framed and pinned, the angles being further secured by 4 pieces, c, nailed toboth ; d is a piece of… … 3 feet 9 inclies wide, and the samein lengtli, with the angles canted off.( Dowels, in timberwork, are pins, ortenons, generally of oak, which arelet into two pieces intended to bejoined in their interior, so as not tobe seen externally: it differs fromthe mortise and tenon, in the tenonor dowel…
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