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 COTTAGE DWELLINGS IN VARIOUS STYLES. iGl be expensive or difiBcult to execute, either in earth or of rubble-stone. The parloiu-, d, might be verj- readily heated from the fireplace of the kitchen, b, by means of a cast- iron plate, as described § 314. The open shed behind ■will be found useful for various purposes, as well as being a passage of communication to the dairy, and having a place for fuel and lumber at the opposite end. 316. ^n elegant improvement would be, to remove the pigsty and the cow-house farther from the dwelling, and connect them by a covered way open at both sides, as in fig. 297, in which m is the dairy ; n, the cow-house ; o, the pantry ; p, the water-closet 297 u r HI 3 a a 1 ■u 298 for females ; q, that for males ; and r, the passage which connects this wing with the house ; s, a wcket gate, separating the yard from the passage, and from the platform on which the house stands ; t, the yard ; u u, tank for liquid manure and dung-pit ; v v, pigsties ; w w, inclined planes to the platform ; and x x, grass-plots, which in some situations may be varied with flower-beds. It will be observed, at ?/, that we have altered the position of the steps to the terrace, and placed an open porch over the entrance. One advantage of this arrangement would be, that the terrace might be con- tinued completely round the house ; and, if it were thought desirable, as we undoubtedly think it would, the eaves might be made to project three feet, which would give a dry walk for infirm persons, or children, during rain. 317. Construction. The walls may be of earth; and, if it is found desirable, the whole of the floors may be heated from a flue from under the boiler, in the back kitchen, c ; which, in this case, must have the space where the boiler is placed sunk three feet below the general level. The windows are shown with Gothic labels, and the door is ledged with ornamental hinges (fig. 298), on a scale of three fourths of an inch to a foot. The gable end is finished with a barge-board (fig. 299), to a scale of three eighths of an inch to a foot, but without a pendant or a pin- nacle. 318. General Estimate. Cubic contents, 15,232 feet, at 6d. per foot, irSSO : 16s. ; at 4d., £253 : 17s. : 4d. ; and at 3f/., ;£'190 : IRs.