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 922
elevation, fig. 1587. Tlie lower part of this front is little more than a plainunbroken surface, with no other finish than that imparted to it by the base mould-ings below and the ornamental string-course above. The recessed porch seen in tliisfront is certainly of a richer character than is… … residences erected in a similar style; yet, so far from being out of keeping with theblank surface on either side of it, it both gives to, and receives from, the latter anadditional value; namely, that of harmonic contrast. The eye is at once directed 900 COTTAGE, FAR3I, AND VILLA ARCHITECTURE. to…
Architecture, Domestic · Furniture
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