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 663
is tobe used as a gauge for preserv-ing the vacuities of the properwidth : it has two rings in itsupper side, by which means itmay be easily drawn up toabout two thirds of its height;at which height, two catches,fig. 1221, 5 g, at each end,will fly out, by means ofweights at their tails, as shownin… … 1221 back, so as to throw all the water 1222 into one gutter, which may conveyit to a barrel, tub, or tank, or acistern over the closet, k, in fig.1218. The elevation of the roofis supposed to be not moi-e tliantwelve degrees; that slope beingmost suitable for a covering ofGrecian or Italian tiles,…
Architecture, Domestic · Furniture
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