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 154
apart. The well to have a j)ropor barrel curb, four teet high, boarded with one-inch tliick boards, and oak stiiges to be placed in the well for fixing the suction pipe of liie pumj). , A barrel curb is fornied of circular ribs, generally of elm, on the outside of wliich slips of deal, four feet… … curb ; this band is afterwards dug out, when the curb descends, and several courses of steening are added above. The use of the curb is to keep the well perpendicular, and truly cylindrical during the work; it is left in the well, the interstices between the slips being filled in with brickwork.…
Architecture, Domestic · Furniture
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