The gardener's magazine and register of rural & domestic improvement (1826)
Loudon, J. C. (John Claudius), 1783-1843, A. & R. Spottiswoode, printer, United States. Patent Office. Scientific Library, former owner DSI · London : Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green · leaf 138
Ithas abundance of light, as it is lighted on all sides, with theexception of about nine or ten feet of a back wall, of theheight of nine feet. On the north I have a conservatory, fiftyfeet in length, by eighteen in breadth, (a) Next to it is a vinery,twelve feet wide, and eighteen or so in length… … four feet and a half in height, and rests upon hewn stone, andis, with the stone, about eight feet from the surface. Thewhole height is rather more than fifteen feet. The back wallis of brick, of the same height as the front. The sashes,springing from both, meet in the centre, at the height…