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 COTTAGE DWELLINGS IN VARIOUS STYLES. 107 Design XXX. — A Cottage Dwelling with Five Roojns and various Conveniences. 223. Accommodation. This may be considered a commodious cottage ; and it might even be turned into two dwellings, by shutting up the door by which c communicates with e. The details of the ground floor are two open porches, a, a ; a shop, or business room, 6 ; a prin- cipal kitchen or living-room, c ; two bed-rooms on the ground floor, d and e ; dusthole, /; place for fuel, g ; privy, h ; back kitchen, i ; pantry, k ; and staircase, with closet under, /. The chamber floor contains two good bed-rooms, m and n, each with two small closets. We may observe here, that closets in the outer walls of bed-rooms are very apt to become damp ; and that, in general, it is much better to keep clean clothes in wooden presses, com- modes, or chests, and dirty clothes in bags. By these modes of keeping, also, less danger is incurred from the moth. 224. Construction. The walls may be of earth, of flints, or of bricks built hollow. All the floors may be heated by a flue from the back kitchen, u Two plain mouldings are in- troduced in the principal body of the front, which will be 200 easily understood from the rVc cross section, fig. 200, to a ^~ scale of three-eighths of an inch to a foot. The pro- jection over this ornament contains a sunk panel, the effect of which, as an architrave to the perpendicular mouldings, is satisfactory. The eaves of the roof ought to have gutters, as shown in the section, fig. 36, § 69 ; and the water may be conducted to a filtering tank under the pantry, from which it may be drawn up for use by one of Siebe's pumps. The roof may be of thatch- 201 225. General Estimate. Cubic contents, 20,762 feet, at &d. per foot, £511:15.; at 4rf., £340 : 15i. ; and at id., £255 : 10* : &d. 226. Remarks. The simplicity of this Design must, we should think, be generally pleasing. The ample sized windows, with their large panes, give the idea of abundance of light and of cheerfulness within ; and the circum- stance of their being brought down to the floor, shows that elegance has not been lost sight of. Such a building would answer well for a bachelor who had a man and his wife as servants. The former might live in h and e, removing the bed from the latter room, and sleeping in m or n. The servant and his wife could sleep in d. The apartment, e, being made the dining-room, it would be requisite to have double doors between it and the kitchen, in order ^F to exclude noise and smells ; and the proximity of these two apartments would be found highly favourable for economising labour, and for what constitutes the essence of all good eating, having things brought to table hot One little alteration in the plan would be requisite to answer the comfort of all parties, supposing the house turned to this use ; and that is, that the staircase, /, should enter from e, instead of from d. This would require no additional expense at the first erection of the house, but merely forethought. Supposing that the master were desirous of having a bed-room on the ground floor, it would only be requisite to join /, g, and h, to i, in a new form, and to open a door from e to o, as in fig. 201. The house would 202