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 COTTAGE DWELLINGS IN VARIOUS STYLES. 105 boards, and pendants, both for the gable ends and windows, may be varied at pleasure ; and they form very fit subjects of composition for exercising the ingenuity of our female readers. The enclosure to the pigsty is of oak pales. 216. General Estimate. Cubic contents, 10,544 feet, at 6rf. per foot, £203 : 12*. ; at 4d., £175 : 14* : M. ; and at Zd., £131 : Us. 217. Remarks. This cottage is dis- figured, rather than otherwise, by the two appendages, /, and g, at the end ; not but what these appendages are essentially re- quisite, but that they are given in a mean and common-place manner. The door of/, is also in too conspicuous a situation, and 193 is too nearly resembling the door of the main entrance. In other respects the building is pic- turesque ; expressive of what it pretends to be, an old English cot- tage ; and not uncomfortable with- in. The mean character of the lean-to at the end, and the naked- ness of the door of /, may very easily be remedied ; as a glance at the ground plan, in Design XXVIII., and another afterwards at the plan, fig. 193, and at the view of the end of the cottage, as so alter- ed, fig. 194, will sufficiently prove. Design XXIX. — A Cottage Dwelling qf Three Rooms, with various Conveniences 218. Accommodation. 195 196 "'V There is a good deal of convenience and com- fort about this cottage, and it must be allowed to be, externally, rather an elegant object. It contains an entrance under a handsome recess to a lobby, a, which opens, on the left hand, into a sitting-room, b, with a bed-closet, i, and, on the right, into the family bed-room, d. Directly in front is the kitchen, c ; the back kitchen, e ; dairy,/; place for fuel, g; privy, h; and place for poultry, or a cow, k. Where there is a small yard for a cow, poultry, fuel, &c., the apartment, k, may be enlarged, and turned into a green-house, heated by hot water from the back of the fireplace in the kitchen, c; and d, being changed into a sitting-room, may be connected, by double glass doors, with the green-house. 219. Construction. This building is well designed for having the walls executed in compressed earth, because these walls are thick, have few openings, and the dwelling is only one story high. The roof is of a low pitch, and should therefore be covered with some description of slate, tile, or metal, and not by any kind of thatch. Beneath the floors may be flues heated from a fire under the boiler in the back kitchen. The windows are shown in the French style, shutting by an air-tight joint, ipipl as exhibited in § 196, fig. 177. The panelled pilasters on each side of the door, and at the angles, a cross section of which is given in fig. 195, to a scale of half an inch to a foot, may bs finished in plaster or cement. Fig. 196 shows the plan and elevation of one end of the chimney stack, which may be executed in brick-work, and covered with cement. 220. General Estimate. Cubic contents, 14,212 feet, at 6d. per foot, £355 : 65. ; at 4rf, £236 : 17* : id. ; and at M., £177 : Zs. 221. Remarks. The entrance front of this cottage is satisfactory, but the outline of the