Cottage residences : or, A series of designs for rural cottages and cottage villas, and their gardens and grounds Adapted to North America . Fig. 56. COTTAGE RESIDENCES. 131 DESIGN VII. An irregular cottage, in the old English style. The situation for this cottage may be in a richly woodedplain, or a sequestered valley. It belongs to that class of rich-ly decorated, rural Gothic edifices, abounding in carved verge-boards and pendants, clustered chimney tops, and irregular out-lines. There is something of grotesqueness, or at least fan-tastic richness in its details—something indicating a certa
Cottage residences : or, A series of designs for rural cottages and cottage villas, and their gardens and grounds Adapted to North America . Fig. 56. COTTAGE RESIDENCES. 131 DESIGN VII. An irregular cottage, in the old English style. The situation for this cottage may be in a richly woodedplain, or a sequestered valley. It belongs to that class of rich-ly decorated, rural Gothic edifices, abounding in carved verge-boards and pendants, clustered chimney tops, and irregular out-lines. There is something of grotesqueness, or at least fan-tastic richness in its details—something indicating a certainlicense of architectural imagination, not to be precisely mea-sured by the standard of the rule and square, or the strictlyutilitarian view. Now a cottage of this class must not, in anycase, be erected on a bare plain, or even one comparatively so,as in such a place all its picturesqueness would seem out ofkeeping—unmeaning—and absurd. But let it be partially hid-den, or half concealed by clustering foliage, and assimilated,as it were, with nature, by the interlacing and entwiningbranches and boughs around it, and of which its
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