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 COTTAGE DWELLINGS IN VARIOUS STYLES. 83 manner as to suit the new locality to which it is applied ; and the hand of the master is shown in effecting this modification in the ^_, — 14(3 spirit of the original style. 173. Ornament or Variation. A veranda, and a common Italian parapet, would serve to decorate this Design, fig. 144; while, if it were desirable to adapt a different elevation to the same plan, any of the Gothic styles indicated in figs. 138, 139, and 140, § 164, might be adopted ; or recourse might be had to the Indian Gothic, fig. 145. The Italian parapet is formed by tiles of any kind, but not longer than six or eight inches, fig. 146, piled 147 148 AAAAAA /- up between piers, as in LZZX, 149 147, 148, 149, 150, 151, and 152. It is easy to conceive that 150 numerous other variations of the same kind may be made in the same manner, by tiles of 151 152 these and of other kinds, with or without the aid of bricks and paving tiles. A very hand- 154 ^) '.'> <:> I ^v-y-A ^ A^;};[Pa^Ai^;.v VW' v^vw JE^ some parapet may be made by using small hollow draining tiles or tubes as balusters. To the Indian cottage, fig. 145, parapets may be contrived of appropriate Indian fonns, figs. 153 and 154. Design XX. — A Dwelling for a Man and his Wife with Children, and having a Cow •house Pigsty, Sfc. attached. 174. Accommodation. The ground plan consists of an entrance, a ; kitchen, b ; bed- closet, c ; wash-house, d ; bed-room, e ; dairy, /; linen closet, g ; pigsty, 7; ; privy, i ; pantry, k ; and cow-house or wood-house, /. In the roof, there is one large bed-room, which may be seen in the section A, B ; it is lighted froim one end, but can only be ascended to by means of a ladder through the trap-door in the ceiling of the entrance lobby, a. A hen- house might be formed over the piggery or the cow-house ; and rabbits, in hutches, might be kept in the latter building. 175. Construction. The inner walls are supposed to be of rubble stone, as being the cheapest material in the given locality ; the outer walls are of brick, and hollow ; the roof is thatched. The three-quarter columns shown in the front elevation, are supposed to be of wood ; and the manner in which they are attached to the walls may be seen in fig. 155, which. is a section through the lean-to from back to front. 176. General Estimate. Cubic contents, 11,142 feet, at firf. per foot, £278: lis. ; at 4rf., £185 : Us. ; and at Zd., £139 : 5s : 6d. 177. Expression. To the eye which looks only at picturesque effect, this cottage will not