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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

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