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 COTTAGE DWELLINGS IN VARIOUS STYLES. 97 Design XXV.— .^ Dwelling fur a f forking Man with a Family of Children. The ground plan exhibits a porch, a ; staircase and passage, b ; -room, with small closet, /; 180 may be built of brick stud- 199. Accommodation kitchen, c ; closet under the stair, d ; back kitchen, e ; sittin privy, g'; and wood-house, /i. The chamber floor con- tains a bed-room, i ; closet, /i ; another closet, /; abed- room, m; two closets, n amdo; and the staircase and landing, p. The defect in the accommodation here, is the want of a proper pantry ; but this might be easily obtained by enlarging h, turning its present door into a window, and opening a door to it from the kitchen. A substitute for h, may be provided adjoining g. 200. Construction. This cottage, its designer observes, " work, plastered outside, the roof to be thatched with reeds or straw. The entrance is to havealedgeddoor, and the windows are to be filled in with lattice-work, having oak mul- lions, or muUions of other timber, painted in imita- tion ofstone. The rabbet heads of the windows, fig. 180, q, to be back filled, (to project beyond the wall, in the manner of archi- traves, but without mouldings, as at r)." The chimney stacks to be form- ed of, or orna- mented with, Roman cement working drawing, fig. 181, made to a scale ,- of half an inch to a foot, in which s, s, are the barge boards, and t, the pendant. Fig. 182, shows a section of a suitable cornice for the living-rooms ; and fig. 183, one in the same style for the bedrooms ; both these sections are to a scale ' of two inches and a half to a foot 201. General Estimate. Cubic contents, 10,904 feet, at 6rf. per foot, £272 : 6*. ; at 4rf., £181 : 10* : 8rf. ; and at Zd., £136 : ■is. 202. TJie Expression is evidently that of an old English cottage. We should have preferred the chamber windows in the ends, which would have been less picturesque in effect, but cheaper to execute, and much easier to keep in repair. We should also prefer the ground floor windows to have six large panes in each frame, rather than to have them filled in with lattice-work. This done, and the alteration made in the accommodation, which we have suggested, § 199, a parapet on the platform, and pinnacles over the pendants, are all that are vranting to render this Design very much to our taste. The barge boards and the pendants to be finished as in the 182 183