The Gardener's magazine and register of rural & domestic improvement . X. Design for a Gardeners House, serving, at the sametime, as a IVatchtower for the Fruit Walls of a Garden in theNeighbourhood of a large Ciltj. By T. A. The following design, by one of our most eminent Londonarchitects, was sent us for our Eiicyclup(cdia of Cottage, Farm,and Villa Architecture, as the gardeners house of an elegantsubuiban villa, the plan of which accompanied it. Both aresuch perfect models of their kind, and display so much in solittle, and at such moderate cost, that we cannot resist the serving as a Wat
The Gardener's magazine and register of rural & domestic improvement . X. Design for a Gardeners House, serving, at the sametime, as a IVatchtower for the Fruit Walls of a Garden in theNeighbourhood of a large Ciltj. By T. A. The following design, by one of our most eminent Londonarchitects, was sent us for our Eiicyclup(cdia of Cottage, Farm,and Villa Architecture, as the gardeners house of an elegantsubuiban villa, the plan of which accompanied it. Both aresuch perfect models of their kind, and display so much in solittle, and at such moderate cost, that we cannot resist the serving as a Watchtower. 661 temptation of giving the gardeners house in this Magazine,though it will appear also, with the villa, in our the villa and the house have been erected by the archi-tect for himself; and, as we have had the pleasure of fre-quently seeing both for several past years, we can answer fortheir being as satisfactory in execution, and as convenient inuse, as they are admirable in design. Fig. 131. is the ground plan of the gardeners house; in. which a is the living-room, an octagon 15 ft. in diameter, witha fireplace i, and large closet or pantry, c. There is a trapdoorin the floor at d, to a store-cellar below; and in the centre ofthe ceiling there is another trapdoor to a seed-loft and herb-room in the roof. The step-ladder, by which the loft is entered,stands under the trapdoor to the cellar, serving as a stair to it,so that it is always at hand to be used for going into the will be observed that this room commands the diagonal ofthe space within the garden, and an entire square of space with-out it, as indicated by the letters kk The bed-room, e, com-mands by its two windows the south and north sides of thewall, which lies east and west (or what is commonly called bygardeners the south wall, from its aspect), as indicated by theletters / /. There are, a scullery, f, with a sink, g; a coal-house, h; and watercloset, i. From the two windows ofg
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