The Englishman's House: A Practical Guide for Selecting and Building a House

by C. J. Richardson

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Whatever opinions may be expressed in regard to the architectural details of this erection, the author at least can plead, as its owner stated in the letters, copies of which have been given, that the essentials of a house, convenience, comfort, and complete suitability for all domestic purposes, were accomplished. These objects being attained, any real or imaginary faults perceived by professional critics may be palliated if not forgotten.

INDEX.

[A], [B], [C], [D], [E], [F], [G], [H], [I], [K], [L], [M], [N], [O], [P], [Q], [R], [S], [T], [V], [W], [Z].

Introduction, [3-48]
“Albert Hall of Arts”, [131]
Architectural history, [16]
Architectural orders, [20] et seq.
Architecture and gardening, [46], [312]
Architecture, English, [25]
Architecture, Grecian, &c., [11]
Architecture, Mexican, &c., [26]
Architecture, origin of, [8]
Architecture, principles of, [27]
Architecture, Roman, [23]
Architecture, Suburban, [29]
Architectural symmetry, &c., [31]
Arnott’s, Dr., system of warming, [357]
Arnott’s ventilator, [414]
Aspect of a house, [36]
Asphalte as a paving, [235]
Atmosphere, the, and smoke, [431]
Bacon, Lord, on house construction, [256]
Balconet, an iron, [331]
Balconet, design for a, [123]
Balusters for a staircase, [277]
Balustrade, a garden, [363] et seq.
Balustrade, Elizabethan, [181]
Balustrade for a staircase, [282]
Balustrades, stone, [247]
Balustrading, cut wood, [279]
Balustrading, designs for iron, &c., [299]
Balustrading, house and garden, [204] et seq.
Barge-board, [247]
Bath-house, design for a, [214]
Bower, garden, rooms, [242]
Boyd’s flue, [414]
Bricks, ventilating, [157], [170]
Buildings, foundation of, [151]
Carving by machinery, [278]
Casements, iron, [220]
Castle, Gunnarstrop, Sweden, [464]
Ceiling, a dining-room, [288]
Ceiling and cornices, [44]
Ceiling, drawing-room and library, [290], [291]
Ceiling for a drawing-room, [166]
Ceiling for a hall, [286]
Ceiling, ornament for a, [61]
Ceilings, ornamental, various, [313] et seq.
Ceilings, plaster ornament for, [161]
Chalk concrete, [83]
Chapel, design for a Roman Catholic, [210]
Cheshire wooden houses, [233]
Chimney-piece, ancient, at Enfield, [228]
Chimney-pieces, designs for, [80], [81], [319]
Chimney-pot, ornamented, [329], [330], [423]
Chimney stack, ancient, [74]
Churches, concrete, [96]
Clunch, [246]
Concrete as a foundation, [152]
Concrete, chalk, [83]
Concrete churches, [96]
Concrete construction, [82]
Concrete cottages, [83]
Concrete, nature, cost, &c., of, [91]
Concrete, remarks on, [93]
Concrete sewers, [96]
Concrete walls, [92]
Construction, fire-proof, [156]
Construction, concrete, [82]
Corbels, [172]
Corbel, French cut-wood, [403]
Corbels, ragstone, [392]
Cornice and ceiling, [44]
Cornice, design for a plaster drawing-room, [101]
Cornice for a drawing-room, [166]
Cottage, design for a picturesque, [62]
Cottage, double, design for a, [66], [72]
Cottage, gardener’s, [50]
Cottages, Hampshire, Kentish, &c., [88] et seq.
Cottage or lodge, design for a small, [58]
Cottage or lodge, design for a huntsman’s, [78]
Country house, design for a small, [174]
Country villa, design for a, [182]
Cubitt’s flues, [407]
Dab houses, [251]
Damp walls, [152]
Damp, wash to prevent, in walls, [159]
Deals, stained, [45]
Decoration external and internal, [42]
Denley’s flue, [413]
Door, entrance for a hall, [458]
Door ornaments, [69]
Doric order, [20]
Drain-eye, [450]
Egyptian architecture, [19]
Elizabethan balustrades, [181]
Elizabethan villa, [280]
Encaustic tiles, [460]
English architecture, [25]
Escutcheon, design of an, [69]
Escutcheon, key, [172]
Finials, [109]
Finials, roof, [80]
Fireplace for a hall, [284]
Fireplace, the, [404]
Fire-proof construction, [156]
Fire-proofing, [158]
Flue construction, [405] et seq.
Flue pedestal, the, [446]
Flues, Cubitt’s, [407]
Flues, various, [405] et seq.
Fogs, London, and smoke, [443]
Foundations, concrete, [152]
Foundations of buildings, [151]
Fountain, an ancient nymph’s, [47]
Fountain, garden, [49]
Fountain, garden, design for a, [469]
Fountains, various designs for, [307]
French villas, roofs, zinc work, &c., [273]
Frieze, external, [173]
Frieze for dining and drawing-room, [178]
Frieze, plaster, for a drawing-room, [65]
Gable, ornamental, [170], [220], [300]
Gardens, ancient, [312]
Gardens and architecture, [45]
Garden, architectural, [313]
Garden bower rooms, [242]
Gardener’s cottage, [50]
Garden fountain, [49]
Garden gate, a, [204]
Garden gate, design for a, [95]
Garden, gate to a flower, [265]
Garden or summer villa, [302]
Garden summer house, [262]
Garden steps, [197]
Garden seat, design for a, [361]
Garden, vignette plan of an Old English, [119]
Gate, a garden, [265]
Gates, iron, in Hyde Park, [128]
Gate lodge, Hyde Park, [125]
Gates, Park, [149]
Gates of London Parks, [139]
Gothic, modern, [24]
Gothic screen, [205]
Gothic style, [10]
Gothic window, [204]
Grecian architecture, [11]
Gunnarstrop castle, Sweden, [464]
Half-Timbered houses, [248]
Hall ceiling, [286]
Hall fireplace, [284]
Hall, lecture, design for a, [456]
“Hall of Arts and Sciences,” Kensington, [133]
Hall stove, [285]
Hall, stove for entrance of a, [120]
Hampshire cottages, [88]
Handle, design for a door, [69]
Harrington estate, the, [136]
Harrington House, Queen’s Palace Gardens, [476]
Houses, foundations of, [151]
Haum as a building material, [249]
Hiort’s flue, [412]
Hot-water apparatus, [349]
House, a bachelor’s, [401]
House, a garden summer, [262]
Houses, aspect of, [36]
Houses, dab and wattle, [251]
House construction, Lord Bacon on, [256]
House, design for a small country, [174]
Houses, heating of, [34]
Houses in Kent, [249]
Houses, noggin, &c., [249]
Houses, post-and-pan, [252]
Houses, site, &c. of, [351]
Houses, warming of, [351]
Hyde Park, Queen’s Gate, entrance to, [139]
Hyde Park Corner Gate, [140]
Ice-house, design for a, [370]
Kensington Gardens, [140]
Kent ragstone, [176]
Kentish cottages, [91]
Kentish village houses, [249]
Key escutcheons, [172]
Knocker, [172]
Library, elevation of a small, [200]
Literary Institution, design for a, [456]
Lodge, a park, [102]
Lodge and gateway, design for, [112]
Lodges of London Parks, [142]
Lodge or cottage, a huntsman’s, [78]
Lodge or cottage, design for a small, [56]
Lodge, park entrance, [104]
Lodge, Queen’s Gate, Hyde Park, [125]
Machine-carving, [278]
Mantel-pieces, [44]
Maisonette, a French, [268]
Meat-jack, design for a, [267]
Moule’s earth system, [241]
Moon’s flue, [412]
Mud walls, [90]
Noggin houses, [249]
Orders of architecture, [20] et seq.
Origin of architecture, [8]
Paper hangings, [42]
Parge-boards, [247]
Pargetting, &c., [248]
Park, entrance lodge and gateway, [112]
Park lodge, design for a, [99]
Park lodge entrance, [104]
Parks, history of the London, [139]
Parks, the Royal, [139]
Pedestals, ornamental, [326]
Pedestal, the flue, [446]
Pendants, &c., [289]
Perkins’ hot-water apparatus, [350]
Picturesque cottage, design for a, [62]
Picturesque defined, [5]
Pipes, elevation of Elizabethan lead-water, [55]
Plaster frieze for a drawing-room, [65]
Plaster ornament for a ceiling, [161]
Porch, design for an entrance, [225]
Portico, elevation of, [180]
Post-and-pan houses, [252]
Pots, ornamental chimney, [423]
Prevention of damp, [151]
Queen Anne’s garden, [140]
Queen’s Gate, iron-work of, [143]
Queen’s Gate Lodge, [125], [142]
Ragstone, Kentish, [176]
Railing, French, in iron, [190]
Railing, park, [147]
Railing, ornamental, [81]
Riding-house and stabling, [389]
Reading-room, design for a, [208]
Rectory, design for a small country, [162]
Retreat, a small country, [268]
Roman Architecture, [23]
Roman Temple, [5]
Roof, French style of, [275]
Roofs, iron, [348]
Roof ornaments, design for wood, [463]
Rose Hill Villa, [82]
Rotunda at Bank of England, [158]
Rushton Hall, [283]
Schools, design for, [208]
School, design for a village Sunday, [70]
School, village, [208]
Screen, Gothic, [205]
Screen, hall, [206]
Sculptor’s villa, [338]
Serpentine, the, [140]
Sewers, a receptacle for soot, [438]
Sewer gases in houses, [436]
Sewers, concrete, [96]
Situation of a house, [38]
Smith’s, Seth, flue, [412]
Smoke Nuisance Act, [452]
Smoke Prevention, [405]
Smoke purified, by a spray of water, from soot, [441]
Smoky chimneys, [427]
Soot and the sewers, [436]
Soot, prevention of, [428]
Soot, removal of, from smoke, [433]
Soot, value of, [451]
Spiral staircase, [61]
Stabling and riding-houses, [389]
Stack flues, [417]
Stair, best proportions of a, [231]
Staircase balustrade, [277], [282]
Staircases, construction of, [194]
Staircase railing, French, in iron, [190]
Staircase, spiral, [61]
Steps, garden, [197]
Stone balustrades, [173]
Stove, design for an entrance hall, [120]
Stove for a hall, [285]
Styles of architecture, [10]
Style, Gothic, [10]
Summer house, or garden, [262]
Summer or garden villa, [302]
Summer room, design for a, [214]
Sunday school, village, design for a, [70]
Tall-boys, [416]
Taste in architecture, [15]
Terrace, ironwork, [297]
Tiles, design for ornamental, [189]
Tiles, encaustic, [460]
Tiles, ornamental, [187]
Turn-buckle, [221]
Ventilation, general principles of, [32]
Ventilation, [411]
Verandahs, [375]
Verge-board, [247]
Villa, a sculptor’s, [338]
Villa, design for a country, [182]
Villa, design for a small country, [222]
Villa, double suburban, [192]
Villa, Elizabethan, [280]
Villa, French, [268]
Villa, old English wooden, [232]
Villa, suburban, design for a, [382]
Villa, suburban, design for a, [373]
Villa, summer or garden, [302]
Villa, summer, for Count Kinski, [470]
Village schools, [208]
Wainscoting, [285]
Walls, concrete, [92]
Walls, damp, [152]
Walls, how to cure damp, [160]
Warming houses, [34], [351]
Water, for removing soot from smoke, [440]
Wattle houses, [251]
Weathercock, design for a, [261], [381]
Window, design for a decorated, [336]
Window, Gothic, [204]
Window, ironwork for, [297]
Wooden villa, old English, [232]
Wood-noggin houses, [249]
Woodwork, French, pine, [186]
Woodwork, French, [275]
Zinc, French ornamental work in, [274]

THE END.

FOOTNOTES:

[A] Now Sir William Fothergill Cooke—October, 1869.