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 COTTAGE DWELLINGS IN VARIOUS STYLES. 143 the contrary, a simple and rather elegant appearance. The shapes of the three windows are different, and yet not opposed, and they are in three different positions relatively to the walls and the roof, forming an agreeable variety, or perhaps rather harmony. On the whole, we are satisfied with this elevation, and the plan is convenient. Design XXXVIII.— ^ Dwelling of Three Rooms, with a Back ITitclien, and other Con- veniences, intended as a Porter's Lodge, or Gardener's House. 277. Accommodation. The ground plan, fig. 258, shows an entrance lobby, a; kitchen, b) back kitchen, c; parlour, rf ; bed-room, e; closet,/; cellar, gj pantry, A; dusthole, i; privy, k; a place for fuel, roots, &c.,/; and another for bees, exterior to c, 2o8 278. Construction. The walls are shown of a thickness proper for earth or rubble stone. The roof is in two parts, fig. 259 ; one part, m n, covering the main body of the house ; and the other part, o p q, being a lean-to at the back. From this construction of the roof, the whole of the water might be easily, and with little expense, collected, and conveyed to a cistern over k, or to a tank under h or I. 279. General Estimate. 13,334 cubic feet, at 6d. per foot, ;f 333 : 7s.; at 4d., £-222 : 4s. : SiL ; and at 3d., £161:135. : 6d. 280. Bemarks. The effect of the front elevation is dignified, and the expression, with reference to use, is that of substantial comfort. There does not appear to be much attempt at style. A side or back view would not give so favourable an expression, because a great breadth of lean-to roof has always a mean effect. To counteract this, care must be taken in planting the garden, fig. 260, (drawn to a scale of a quarter of an inch to ten feet,) that trees be so placed as to break the horizontal lines from every point of view whence the lean-to part of the roof can be seen. The simplest mode of effecting this would be by planting a row of trees in the border below the terrace, commencing at r, and continued round s to t: but this would shade the windows, and stagnate the air about the house ; and, therefore, a better mode is, to place only a few trees in that situation, and scatter others throughout the garden (but always so as not to impede its