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 990
n this subject, by Mr. Mallet, we present as particularlyappropriate : — For riding-houses, barns, large sheds, and other buildings requirino- roofsof considerable space, I conceive a roof I have some time since invented the best I haveseen. It is constructed partly of cast and wrought iron, and… … it to be from thirty feet to eighty feet span. The main ribs, a a, are of cast iron, insection as in s; and each is trussed by a round wrought-iron rod, b b, cottered into eachend, and passed under the projection, or bracket, c. Thus, each principal rafter becomestrussed; and, at the meeting of the…
Architecture, Domestic · Furniture
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