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 82
rally askhow it happens, that in a buildingso studiously uniform, the entrancestairs should not have been placedin the centre of the front? If theanswer be that there is not a centralopening, the question occurs, whywas not this provided in arrangingthe plan ? Here, then, we have theArchitect… … 60 COTTAGE, FARM, AND VILLA ARCHITECTURE. 96 building as a human habitation, there is also an obvious absurdity in expending so muchfor appearance, and yet paying so little attention to internal comfort, as to almost excludethat essential requisite to every dwelling, light. It is evident that all…
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