Posts Tagged ‘British’

Cottage Ornee Designs circa 1813, 1816 and 1817 – London Architecture

“OFFICES. In forming this plan, care has been taken to avoid whatever experience has found to be objectionable relating to the domestic offices, and to afford facility of communication to the apartments, without subjecting them to inconvenience or offence. The door of separation in the hall completely divides the offices from the superior parts of…

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The Fourplex – Four Cottages Design circa 1817 – London Architecture

“The habitations of the labouring poor may be rendered ornamental, and the comforts of them increased, at a very trifling charge beyond the cost of common buildings: and for this purpose the annexed plate is designed for four cottages, connected with each other, and under one roof; a mode of building that admits a considerable…

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Cottage Designs circa 1817 – London Architecture

“The plan of this rural building is arranged for the accommodation of two ladies, whose establishment is three female servants and a gardener, his residence being at a small distance only from the cottage. Its situation combines the romantic with the rural, and as it affords the view of a beautiful piece of water, bounded…

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