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 COTTAGE DWELLINGS IN VARIOUS STYLES. 101 Design XXVIL — A Dwelling for a Man and his Wife, with Children, or a Servant, with the usual Conveniences in a detached Building. 208. Accommodation. This plan exhibits a porch, a ; kitchen, b ; back kitchen, c ; parlour, or family bed-room, d ; and children, or ser- vants' bed-room, e. The privy, pigsty, cow-house, and similar appendages are supposed to be placed in a small yard, opposite the entrance to the garden, /. If this were the case, a wash-house might also be erected there ; the apartment, c, being used as a kitchen, and 6, as a parlour. This cottage might then be suitable for a small farmer, or jobber. 209. Construction. The walls may be of rubble stone, small land stones, or flints, set in good mortar. They may be finished at the gable ends with summer stones (stones placed on a wall, or on piers, for the support of beams, or on the lower angle of gable ends, fig. 185, g, as an abutment of the 186 barge stones, h), having worked cornices, fig. 186, and stone pinnacles. — 1 The roof may be of plain tiles or slates ; the windows are shown s I as common sashes with large panes, hung in the usual manner. The door is ledged, with ornamental outside hinges, fig. 187, to a scale of three-quarters of an inch to a foot. The chimney tops may be of Austin's cement, or of soft stone. 210. The Garden contains two roods and a half; it is surrounded by a hedge of fruit trees, within which is a border, and walk ; and the interior is in four main compartments, i, k, I, m, for the usual rotation ; with two small plots, n, o, for fruit shrubs ; two still smaller, p, q, for flowers ; and three, r, s, t, for straw- berries, tart rhubarb, and perennial pot and sweet herbs. 211. General Estimate. Cubic contents, 9,024 feet, at 6d. per foot, £225 : 12*. ; at Ad., £150 : 8«. ; and at M. £112: Gs. 212. Situation. The designer of this building states, that it will have a good effect as a gardener's house, placed in the garden, in cases where the gardener is a single man. The apartment, d, may be the gardener's library and ofl5ce ; and e, his bed-room. He also thinks that it might answer well for a small proprietor in North America ; the farm lands surrounding the garden ; or the garden placed near a public road. The house having windows on all sides, it ought evidently to be placed in an open, airy situation. 213. Expression. Something Gothic ; and, from the cross over the entrance front, bordering on the ecclesiastical style. This expression is coimteracted in a small degree by the modern windows ; but more is gained to the inhabitant in comfort by those windows, than is lost to the man of reasoning taste, by this deviation from the details of correct style. However 188 as the comfort of a single man, for example, a gardener in his garden, is of much less con- sequence than that of a family, we see no objection to completing the effect of such a building by intro- ducing mullions in the windows with lattice-work, and labels over them (a label, or hood moulding, is an outer moulding, crowning a door or window head, either plain or carved, and always returned at the ends, when straight, fig. 188) ; or, pointed topped win- dows may be employed ; and, instead of lattice- work, with those very small panes, called by glaziers quarries (perhaps from carre, French, square), large panes may be used. It would also be an im-