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 138 COTTAGE, FARM, AND VILLA ARCHITECTURE. priate ; and it is heightened by the bench under the recess, which may be supposed to be placed opposite the gate which the occupant is expected to open, and gives an air of ease and attendance on his part, as a porter's chair does in the hall of a mansion. Design XXXV. — A Cottage Divelling of Three Rooms, ivith Back Kitchen, Coiu-houset and other Conveniences. 265. Accommodation. This is a commodious cottage, and all the accommodations being got within one roof, with the exception of two small lean-tos, it must be considered as promising to be economical in its erection. By the ground plan, fig. 253) it appears to contain an entrance, a, from under a projecting porch; a kitchen, b, with a bed- closet from it, c, for a child ; principal bed-room, d ; parlour, e ; back kitchen,/; shed for fuel, ^; cow-house, h; dairy, i; water-closet,^, with a cistern of water over it, supplied from the roof; and pantry, I. If the cow-house and dairy can be dispensed with, or removed to the yard, then g and k may be got out of /;, and the whole building included under one roof; always a most desirable object. This alteration effected, the back elevation may be rendered symmetrical, and altogether as handsome as the front or the ends, as exemplified in the improved plan, fig. 254. 254