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 921
t to the Design a tolerable degree of originality. It is not enough that there be acertain air of architectural propriety ; there must be feeling and flavour likewise. It isfar better that there should be a strong relish, though even of a questionable quality,than those insipid decencies which it… … convey some idea of the relative localities as imagined by myself, than positively to deter-mine the choice of site, it will be seen that the house, a, is ])laccd at a moderate distancefrom the road, h, which, as there is no direct view from any of the principal apartmentson that side, is not at…
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