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 COTTAGE DWELLINGS IN VARIOUS STYLES. U)S Design XLIV. — ^ Cottage of Three Rooms ami a Back Kiichan on l/te Ground Flom, ivitk various Conveniences. 320. Accommodation. In the ground plan may be seen an entrance lobby, a; kitchen, b ; bed-room, c ; parlour, d ; closets, e andy ; back kitchen, g ; dairy or pantry, h ; pigstv or dusthole, i ; privy, k ; and cow-house or root-cellar, /. 321. 'Conslritcticn. The walls may be of brick or stone; the copings and finishings to the walls, windows, and chimney tops, to be of the latter material, or of Roman cement. The chimney head cornice may be finished, as n fig. 30:^, to a stale of one inch and a half to a foot The designer of this cottage recommends the roof to be covered with painted pantiles ; the windows to be divided into three parts by two mullions, and each compartment to have one iron frame filled in with latticework. The surrounding terrace appears by the section to be formed of earth, and the floors seem to be paved. 322. General Estimate. Cubic contents, 12,330 feet, at 6d. per foot, £'308 : 5s. ; at 4d., £205 : s. ; and at 3f/., £154: 2s. : 6d. 323. Remarks. The accommodations of this cottage are obtained at more than ordinary expense, on account of the numerous projections in the ground plan, and the consequent angles, hips, and valleys, in the roof. The style is somewhat Elizabethan ; but it is hardly justifi- able to raise the two pediments over the entrance door and riglit-hand window ; when, according to the section, there can be no use whatever made of the roof. It will also be observed by the section, that the doors, even of the dairy and back kite! en, are six-paneled, which is not very consistent with the entrance door, that being only ledged. While there is this attention paid to the style of the doors in the interior, no cornices to the rooms are shown, nor any shelf to the kitchen chimney. In short, not to waste criticism on a design scarcely worthy of it, though there is something of style in the elevation, and of accom- modation in the plan, yet the composition, taken as a whole, is not such as to be held up as an example for imitation, but rather as a beacon to be avoided. Design XLV. — A Divelling of Four Rooms, with Back Kitchen, and other Conveniences. 324. Accommodation. From the entrance passage, a, a door opens to the kitchen, b, which is connected with the back kitchen, c, on the one hand, and with the bed-room, d, on the other. There is a parlour, e, and another bed-room,/! with a closet, g: and, in a lean-to, we have a cow-house or root-cellar, h ; pigsty, i ; and privy, k. Should the cow- house and pigsty be occupied as such, then it would be necessary to have a yard joined to that side of the house, and to alter the slope of the platform within it, as in similar cases. Some use may be made of the roof by a trapdoor in the ceiling of the kitchen, and the whole may be heated from a fireplace in the back kitchen. 325. Construction. The walls may be of brick or stone ; and the panels, shoivn in the elevation, either executed in the brickwork or formed in cement. The roof is low in pitch, and it is proposed to cover it with slates. The chimney stack is large, containing four vents or flues ; it has a sunk panel in the lower part, which, with the cornice at its termination, will be understood by the vertical section fig. 303, on a scale of half an inch to a foot. The section fig. 304, to a scale of half an inch to a foot, shows the projecting frieze, under the eaves of the roof, which is supported by the paneled pilasters. The door is paneled, and the windows are in the modern style, witti sashes hung by lines, weights, and pulleys, &c. 326. General Estimate. Cubic contents, 13,700 feet, at 6d. per foot, £342 : iOs. ; at 4rf. £228 : 6s. : Sd. ; and at 3d., £171 : 5s. 327. Remarks. There is a simplicity and grandeur in the elevation of this cottage, which raises it above the cha- racter of a dwelling of the humblest class. The massive chimney stack corresponds well with the simplicity of the roof; the effect of which is supported by the smaller, but similarly formed, roofs of the projections at the ends. The paneled pillars or pilasters, with the cornice over them, have 303 j