The House: A Manual of Rural Architecture

Rural architecture and how to build country houses and out-buildings, embracing the origin and meaning of the house and the art of house-building. Includes planning, style and construction, designs and descriptions of cottages, farm houses, villas and out-buildings, of various cost and in the different styles of architecture, etc. Also includes an appendix containing recipes for paints and washes, stucco, rough-cast, etc. and instructions for roofing, building with rough stone, unburn brick, balloon frames, and the concrete or gravel wall.