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 735
convenience, in a family, of being able tohave a brisk fire in the kitchen in a moment, when wanted, and to check the combustionin an instant, without extinguishing the fire, and without even cooling the fireplace,when the fire is no longer wanted, can hardly be conceived by those who have not… … kitchen. In this plan, the ash-pit doors, with their registers, are distinctly seen ; andalso the ends of the earthen stoppers, which close the openings into the fireplaces of fourof the principal boilers. The covers of the principal boilers, as also of several of thestewpans, are seen above the…
Architecture, Domestic · Furniture
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