. The Englishman's house, from a cottage to a mansion. A practical guide to members of building societies, and all interested in selecting or building a house . Details of siMe ornaments. foundation; the scale is too small to show the damj)course or the ventilating bricks, as previously described(see page 159). The chimneys are shown carried upnine inches square, excepting the kitchen chimney,that being 14 inches by 9. The staircase was to havea plain Elizabethan iron railing, and the whole of the A SMALL COUNTRY RECTORY. 171 wood-work to be coloured and grained oak; the roofwas to be covered
. The Englishman's house, from a cottage to a mansion. A practical guide to members of building societies, and all interested in selecting or building a house . Details of siMe ornaments. foundation; the scale is too small to show the damj)course or the ventilating bricks, as previously described(see page 159). The chimneys are shown carried upnine inches square, excepting the kitchen chimney,that being 14 inches by 9. The staircase was to havea plain Elizabethan iron railing, and the whole of the A SMALL COUNTRY RECTORY. 171 wood-work to be coloured and grained oak; the roofwas to be covered with slate, these requiring a lesssolid base ; ornamental ironwork crowned the summitof the principal roof over the staircase. An illustra-tion of the front of the building is given on page169. The figures on page 170 illustrate various kinds of. Section and elevation of chimney. treatment for the carving of the finials and pendants,and the ornaments of the small gables; it being usualin these structures not to have any two parts of orna-mental detail exactly alike. It has all to be carved byhand, and requires only slight extra trouble on the partuf the architect to make separate patterns for the work-men. A section and elevation of one of the chmmeys 172 A SMALL COUNTRY RECTORY. are shown also; tliey are fitted with the small capintroduced and used so extensively by the late Cubitt, at Belgravda and Pimlico; this will
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