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 81
rm on which this dwelling is built, is sustained by masonry ;which, on three sides, supports the columns of the veranda or colonnade. These columnsmay either be of stone, of brick stuccoed, or of timber ; in either case, set on stone plinths,and with stone caps. The roof should be slated, with… … 128. The Garden, containing about three fourt})s of an acre, is here shown surroundedby a hedge. This hedge might, in many cases, be formed of fruit-bearing slirubs, such asphims, apples, sloes, service or mountain ash, the berries of 92 which afford an excellent spirit; or elders, the berries of…
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