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 180 COTTAGE, FARM, AND VILLA ARCHITECTURE. child's bed-room, or a pantry. The parlour, g, communicates with the bed-room, h. The privy and other conveniences are supposed to be contained in a separate building on the outside of the garden. 356. Construction. The walls are shown of a proper thickness, for being built of earth, or of rubble stone, or of any description of cementitious wall without chainwork ; that is, without what in carpentry are called ties and strutts. The roof may be covered with slate, and finished, as in fig. 63, § 84i 357. General Estimate. Cubic contents, 16,848 feet, at 6d. per foot, ;^42J : 4*. ; at 4rf., £280 : 16s. ; and at 3d., £210 : 12s. 358. Remarks. This is an example of an irregular, and yet not picturesque building, and of a good deal of accommodation without convenient arrangement. The plan is irregular, from the projection of the two bays of the apartments /" and g ; and from the projection of d and li beyond the line of frontage of e ; but the regular pen- tagonal sides of the bays, and their tame roofs, present nothing strikingly irregular in the elevation. There is nothing irregular or picturesque in the roof, nor in the porch, which occupies too large and important a portion of the main building for its use. Bay windows are great additions to the cheerfulness of rooms when they have lights on three sides, and this they always used to have in Britain, till the great increase of window-duty, during the war with Bonaparte, rendered bay windows with three light: too expensive for the middle classes, not to speak of the lower. Bays, with only ont light, as in the Design before us, are neither handsome without, nor cheerful within ; and, in a cottage, the gain in point of room is by no means commensurate with the expense. In poiYit of expression, bay windows of three lights convey ideas of ancient times ; because the forms of the windows, in that case, are diiferent from what they are when only one window is placed in the centre of each bay. In the Design before us, the modern window in tlie bay seems misplaced and in- complete. However, we have here the materials for a good comfortable dwelling. Let us suppose the central bay, f, made a central porch ; the bay of g placed in the centre of that side of the room ; the porch, a, turned into a pantry ; and the bed- room, b, made to open from the kitchen. We shall then have the leading features of a good plan, fig. 315: and by adding a place for fuel, i ; a privy, k ; and carrying out the front wall of e, we shall have a dwelling fit for any person to reside in, all other cir. cumstances, such as situation, aspect, dryness of floors, &c., being favourable. The elevation, at very little expense, might be rendered handsome, fig. 316. No particular