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 652
e following case : — The PoliceOffice being built on the side of very steep ground, the front of the building is about20 feet higher than the back part. A range of cells for prisoners had been added onthe lowest level, and were so situated that it became a difficult question how they were DWELLINGS… … formed, of 4 feet long, 2 feet wide, and 1 foot and a half deep, lined and floored withbrick and mortar, and covered by an Arbroath or Caithness flag, b, forming part of thepermanent floor of the cell. This pit was filled with hard materials, such as verycoarse gravel, road metal of broken…
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