An encyclopædia of cottage, farm, and villa architecture and furniture : containing numerous designs for dwellings ... each design accompanied by analytical and critical remarks ... (1842)
Loudon, J. C. (John Claudius), 1783-1843 · London : Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans · leaf 1019
feet this roof will always, in this country, be cheaper by far than a framed timber roof, and better too. I have never seen a roof, or heard of one, like this ; and, therefore, it is original with me. The roof which most resembles it, of any I have seen, is that of the sheds at the Clarence Docks,… … strains are expected, they are cast with holes, and leaded on, as casting on injures the fibre of the wrought iron." — We greatly admire the construction of these roofs, but we cannot bring ourselves to consider as in good taste, the practice of applying ornaments to the tension bars, either by…
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