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 1 1'8 COTTAGE, lAKM, AND VILLA ARCHITECTURE. 258 separated from it by a small area, f, which may either be left open for a play -ground for children, or laid out as a drying ground, or tlower-garden. The six kitchen-gardens artj indicated as ranged on three sides of the building, and the whole space occupied by the dwellings and gardens need not, in ordinary cases, exceed one acre. The accommoda- tions of the separate dwellings vary from two to four rooms each. The place for a wash-house and bake-house is intended to be used in rotation by each family, so that it will be employed as a wash-house and bakeliouse six days in the week, and as a bake- house only on the Sunday morning. One of the cottagers may have the general ma- nagement of the wash-house and of the oven ; and this management may either be taken by all in turn, or a small payment be made for it monthly by all to one, &c. 292. Accommodation of each Cottage. The four dwellings, marked g g g g, contain each a principal room ten feet by twelve feet, and a small room of ten feet by eight feet, or. both floors, with a closet under the staircase. The two dwellings, marked h h, contain each a room ten feet by twelve feet, on both floors, with a closet under the staircase. 293. Construction. The walls are supposed to be built of brick, and the roof slated. If, instead of brick, timber were used, there would, at the present price of British timber about London (£3: 10s. per load of fifty cubic feet), be a saving of from £50 to ,£60 on the six dwellings. In this case, all the exterior and foundation timber ought to be oak, but the rest may be of any description of wood of British growth. The floors of both stories are to be of deal boarded ; the windows of latticework in iron frames, and the covers to the entrance porches of slate slabs. 294. Specification and Estimate. These are here combined ; the building being of so simple a description, that a separate specification is not considered necessary. 295. Bricklayer, Plasterer, and Slater's Work. The bricklayer is to build the walls externally, and the division walls between each cottage, of one brick in thickness, with three courses of footings, one foot and a half thick. The openings of the chimneys on the ground floor to be two feet six inches wide, with jambs of one brick in thickness ; and the chimneys of the chamber floor to be one foot six inches wide, with balf-brick trimming arches. The space under each staircase to be paved, and enclosed with brick- work one foot six inches higli, and half a brick in thickness. £ s. d. Fifty-three thousand bricks, per thousand 38s Six and a half bushels of lime for every thousand of bricks, at Sd. per bushel, is, per thousand of bricks, 4s. : Ad Road drift (the scrapings of roads, being stone or gravel, ground to powder by the traflic on the road, and therefore become a sort of sand,) or pit or river sand, for every thousand of bricks say 2s. : 2rf. Labour for every thousand of bricks, Ss In all, per thousand of bricks, £2 : 12s. : 6d. which for 53 thousand is 139 : 2:6 (The above price is equal to ^11 : 5s. per rod of brickwork.) Digging the foundations 2: 10:0 Twelve chimney pots, and setting them, at 4s 2 : 8:0 Twelve cast-iron fronts to the fireplaces, five eighths of an inch thick, four inches wide, with slabs half an inch thick, and one foot six inches wide, at 13s 17 : 16 : O Twenty stone sills to the windows, at Gs 6 : 0:0 One hundred feet lineal of ridge tiles, at Ad 2 : 16:0 Eighteen squares of countess slating on the roof, at 25s 22: 10 : As slating is the lightest covering, and the cheapest in most parts of England at the present time ; it is preferable to tiles.