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 967
602, contains, a, fire-proof staircase; 6, room containing a furnace and boiler for heating water to supply all the bed-rooms in the floor below ; c, closet ; d, passage to the bed-rooms ; e, stair for company's servants ; /, concealed passage for bell wires, &c. The other apartments, eleven in… … There is not a single lath and plaster partition in the house ; in consequence of which, the danger from fire, if it should break out in any part, is greatly diminished. The roofs over the billiard-room, over the staircase, 1603 over the smaller buildings between the staircase and the court, and…
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