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 COTTAGE DWELLINGS IN VARIOUS STYLES. 14i 266. Construction. The walls are for the most part shown thick, as if built of earth or stone ; and the rocf is covered with Peake's Grecian terro-metallic tiles. These being heavy, require considerable strength of timber in the rafters ; but their durability we believe to be greater than even that of cast-iron. 267. General Estimate. Cubic contents 13,904 feet, at 6d. per foot, £'347 : 12s. ; at Ad., i;231 : 14s. : 8d. ; and at 3rf., £'1751 : 16s. 268. The expression is somewhat analogous to that of the Scotch stone cottage. Design VII. ; but the low pitch of the roof, the Grecian tiles, and the porch in front, are great improvements. Design XXXVI. — ^Dwelling, icitk Four Booms, a Back Kitchen, and other Con- veniences. 269. Accommodation. This is calculated to form a very comfortable habitation, and all the rooms being on the ground floor, the walls may be built of earth, and the apart- ments heated by flues in the floor from the back kitchen. The ground plan, fig. 255, 255 shows a porch, a, a kitchen, b ; parlour, c ; two bed-rooms, d and e ; a lobby, y (lighted from the dairy; ; a root-house, g ; wood or coal house, h; pantry, i; pri-y, k; dairy, Z; and back kitchen, m. 270. Construction. The walls may be of stone, finished with blocking courses, after the manner of Design VII. ; the roof of slate, and the windows of sashes hung with weights and pulleys. The floors may either be of boards, or paved, and heated by flues from the back kitchen. 271. General Estimate. Cubic contents, 19,468 feet, at 6d. per foot, £486 : 14s. ; at 4d., £324 : 9s. ; 4d. ; and at 3d., £243 : 7s. 272. Bemarks. The expression is that of an humble but very comfortable dwelling ; though little care has been taken to create allusions to any particular style. The door in the porch, and also the entrance to the back kitchen, ought to be varied relatively to the position of the sun, and the prevailing winds. Design XXXVII. — A Dicelling of Four Booms, with other Coiiveniences, intended as a Lodge, or a House for a Bailiff, or Head- Gardener. 273. Accommodation. The ground plan, fig. 256, contains a kitchen, a, entered from under a veranda ; a parlour, b ; a small bed-room, c ; back kitchen, d, from which the whole may be heated; pantry, e ; dusthole, y; place for potatoes and other roots, and for fuel, g ; and privy, h. There is a closet under the staircase; and in the cham- ber floor two small bed-rooms, and a garret over the kitchen. 274. Construction. The walls of the main building are shown of extra-thickness, with a view to situations where the cheapest building material is compressed earth, or rubble