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 662
, and not more than one in breadth (four inches and a half) on the top; thewhole to be bedded, and surrounded on all sides, above and below, with four inchesof well-rammed wood ashes ; these being bad conductors of heat. Mr. Tugwell observes,that he can affirm, from experience, that an oven of this… … 010 COTTAGE, FARM, AND VILLA ARCHITFXTUIIE. k H be very suitable for being bedded in ashes. The fireplace of the digester, he recom-mends to be surrounded by the same non-conducting substance. There are a smiUpantry,/, and a place, g, for 1219 the stairs down to the cel-lar, and up to tlie…
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