Radford's practical barn plans : being a complete collection of practical, economical and common-sense plans of barns, out buildings and stock sheds . English carriage house of todaywas built after hundreds of years of ex-perimenting until the location of everyplank, the size and direction of every doorand window was determined without anyfurther question in regard to the possi-bility of the slightest improvement. It isput back on the lot in the furtherest cornerfrom the house. The approach to it isthrough an arched or pillored opening ina beautifully well kept hedge. The drive-way is not stra
Radford's practical barn plans : being a complete collection of practical, economical and common-sense plans of barns, out buildings and stock sheds . English carriage house of todaywas built after hundreds of years of ex-perimenting until the location of everyplank, the size and direction of every doorand window was determined without anyfurther question in regard to the possi-bility of the slightest improvement. It isput back on the lot in the furtherest cornerfrom the house. The approach to it isthrough an arched or pillored opening ina beautifully well kept hedge. The drive-way is not straight. English gardeners BARN PLANS 113 keep just as far away from straight linesas they possibly can. Somebody discov-ered in the time of King Alfred that curvedpaths and roadways in gardens were prop-er. Some of the old enthusiasts went astep too far and got them crooked. This was frowned upon for a century or twountil succeeding generations pulled someof the kinks out by injecting a few lib-eral doses of English conservatism so thatnow after a good many generations thedriveway from the lane through the back o^imxoxojxoi^axttrxxttQJxtrrrtt::^. ^T/[lL JTALL I 6
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