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 COTTAGE DWELLINGS IN VARIOUS STYLES, 157 whole would not be unpleasing, fig. 291. Or if, instead of a veranda, Gothic porches were added to eadi entrance, as in the plan, fig. -292, and Gothic labels were placed over the lower windows, a Gothic character given to the doors, and to the cast-iron grating, and Gothic chimney pots added to the chimney tops, something ornamental in a different stvle woidd be produced, fig. 293. '29-2 5294 Design XLII — ^ Cottage of Three Boojns, in the Elizabethan Style. 310. Accommodation. From a porch, a, there are two entrances; one to a kitchen, b, with two light closets, c, d; and the other to a parlour, e, and a bed-room, y, with a closet, "-. No out of door conveniences are shown ; and they must therefore be sup- posed to be placed in a yard, at a short distance from the dwelling. 311. Construction. The walls are supposed to be of stone, and the roof covered with grey slates. The openings of the windows are shown with plain architraves or facings ; the sashes are modern, and hung with weights and pulleys. The porch is supported by a wooden column, which rests upon a square stone plinth, and has a plain capital. The chimney pots may be formed of cement, agree- ably to fig. 294. The platform or terrace may either be finished with turf and gravel, or paved, as in Design XXXIL, as may be most convenient in the given situation. 312. General Estimate. Cubic con- tents, 13,615 feet, at 6d. per foot, £340:7s.:6d. ; at4d., ^226 :185.:4rf.; at 5d., £"170 : 3s. : 9rf. 313. Remarlcs. This is evidently an ornamental cottage, and certainly possesses some characteristics of the Elizabethan style. Were a cellar floor added, and the stair to it made in the closets c and g, the accom- modation and convenience would be greatly increased ; a small stair might be continued from the same situation to the roof, the space in which, as exhibited by the section, might be applied to various useful purposes. A garret, where there is a suflHcient number of openings for ventilation