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 902
approaching the entrance front, is as shown in fig. 1546, and a nearer view of the samefront is given in fig. 1547. The principal views are towards Ben Lomond, the Vale ofClyde, and the Campsie Fells. Every one who has seen the house of a Scotch laird. … erected during the seventeenth century, will allow that this is a very gooQ imitation ofthe old Scotch manner, which, like the laird himself, was dignified but severe, andfoibiddino- rather than inviting. There is something too commonplace and town-likein the iron rails and sunk area ; and, though…
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