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 94 COTTAGE, FARM, AND VILLA ARCHITECTURE Design XXIV. — A Dwelling for a Man and his Wife without Children, having Two Rooms and other conveniences. 195. Accommodation. For a 177 small family this may be considered a comfortable cottage. It contains a porch, within which is a lobby, a; kitchen, b ; bed-room, e; store-closet, d; back kitchen, from which the whole house may be heated, e ; pantry,/; dairy, §■; privy, h; root cellar, i ; and wood-house, k. 196. Construction. The walls may be of earth, or of any other convenient material ; the roof we have supposed to be 178 slated, and the gutter is not shown. The windows are in the French manner; that is, opening in the middle fiom top to bottom, and to render the junction as much as pos- sible air tight, the styles, fig. 177, half the full size, are made to fit into each other in the manner shown at /. In this, as in every case where the house is built of mud, or compressed earth, the chimney tops are supposed to be of stone, brick, or other material which will endure exposure to all weathers. We have said little hitherto of internal finishing ; but we would not on that account have any cottage without some sort of cornice, both to its living- rooms and sleeping-rooms. Ornament enhances comfort, and tends to refine the mind. For this cottage, which is somewhat in the Italian manner, fig. 178, to the scale of two inches and a half to a foot, may serve as the section of a cornice for the living-rooms, and fig. 179, to the same scale, for the bed-rooms. 197. General Estimate. Cubic contents 10,920 feet, at Gd. per foot, £273 ; at 4rf.,£"182 ; and at 3d., £136 : 10*. 198. Expression. Something more than a common cottage dwelling is here intended ; but there are, in our eyes, two conspicuous faults ; the first is the hipped or rather trun- cated angle of the pediment roof; and the second, the want of height and boldness in the chimney tops. These defects supplied, and a window added to show that some use was made of the garret, with a veranda and parapet or balustrade, the effect to us would be satisfactory. We again recom- mend our readers to attempt to realize these improvements on paper. The benefit they will derive from so doing, is far greater than may at first sight appear. The mere cir- cumstance of familiarizing the mind with orderly arrangement, regular figures, symmetry, means adapted to the end in view, either in buildings, in furniture, or in gardens, must have an influence on conduct. Order is the fundamental principle of all morals ; for what is immorality but a disturbance of the order of civilized society, a disturbance of the relations between man and man ? We do not say that all kinds of drawing have a tendency to pro- duce an orderly mind, but we do affinn that architectural drawing has that tendency in an eminent degree. Carpenters and stone-masons are a superior class of mechanics in all countries. 179