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 108 COTTAGE, FARM, AND VILLA ARCHITECTURE be greatly improved by this arrangement, and it might be rendered still more commodious, by having two steps down to i, so as to get a floor over i, /, g, and h, in which to form a bed-room for the married servants, to be entered by a stair from i. This would allow of d being used as a drawing-room. In this way a very simple cottage might, at a very moderate expense, and what is of more consequence, without injury to its beauty or cha- racter, be changed into a cottage villa, fit for the residence of any gentleman whatever. It would then deserve some ornament; and what we should prefer would be to sur- round the whole by a glass veranda, placing a light iron fence on the outer margin of the stone parapet, and ornamental chimney pots, fig. 202, on the stacks of chimneys ; or a somewhat different style may be adopted, as in fig. 203. Design XXXI. — A Dwelling with Five Rooms, with Conveniences, in the Old English Style, where the building material is chiefly Stone. 227. Accommodation. There is more show than space in this building, from the cir- cumstance of there being only one room in width in the bed-room story. It is by no means recommended as a cheap Design, but as one ornamental and characteristic ; and suited for producing a great effect, at comparatively little cost, in a country where free-stone, soft and easily worked, is abundant, and the price of labour low. The ground floor consists of an entrance and staircase, a; a kitchen, 6; a wash-house, or back kitchen, c; a bed-closet, d ; a milk-room, e ; a closet under the stair, /; a bed-room, g ; parlour, h ; store cellar, i ; place for coals, k ; and privy, /. The chamber story contains two bed-rooms, m and o ; a dressing closet, p ; and a staircase and landing, n. 228. Construction. The walls should be of stone, in regular courses, or of brick ; and the jambs (sides) of the doors and windows, with their sills, and lintels (covering stones) of hewn stone. These may, or may not, be bevelled at the 204 angles. The mode of executing the summer stones and pinnacles, will be understood from figures already given, § 209, figs. 185 and 186. Great care should be taken in con- structing the guttering over the bay windows, so as com- pletely to carry oflF the water. These windows may have mul- lions, and iron casements made to open. The roof should be slated, and the chimneys may be of stone, and polygonal, or what are commonly called cannon chimneys. The chimney head cornice may be executed as in fig. 204. Some use may be made of the roof, to which light and air may be admitted by the small openings shown in the upper part of the gables. 229. General Estimate. Cubic contents, 23,024 feet, at 6d. per foot, £575 : 12*. ; at 4d., 16383 : 14s : 8d. ; and at 3d., £287 : 165. 230. Remarks. In England, this would be considered a ▼ery suitable house for a gardener or bailiff, where effect was an object ; and it might be adapted to a small family, in easy circumstances, by rendering g a sitting-room ; and by raising a floor over c, d, and e, for servant's sleeping-rooms ; and another over i, k, and /, for a family bed-room ; the dwelling would then be tolerably complete. A light stone parapet may be pkiced on the outer margin of the platform with ornaments at the corners somewhat analagous to those which terminate the gable ends. These, with the other variations and improvements of which this dwelling is susceptible, we leave to be designed by our readers.