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 182 COTTAGE, FAHM, AND VILLA ARCHITECTURE. Design LIIL — A Cottage far a Village Tradesman. 3G2. Accommodation. This Design was made for a slioemaker, who wanted only three rooms on a floor. It was intended to be a corner house ; and to contain, on the ground floor, fig. 319, a kitchen, with oven and boiler, a; parlour, 6 ; cellar, under the stairs, c ; pantry, d ; shop, e ; and privy, f. If it were desirable, a lean-to back kitchen or wash- house might be built in the situation of g. The chamber floor contains three rooms. Fig. 320 is the ele- vation. 363. Construction. The walls are sup- posed to be built of " brick and flints, in alternate squares. Tills mode of build- ing with a mixture of stone, brick, or even chalk, with flints, is common in several counties in England, and has a very picturesque effect, either with the different kinds of materials in alternate layers, or in squares, as in this Design. When chalk- stone forms one of the materials used, the roof should always project a good way over the walls, to protect them from the rain ; in which case, even if the chalk should be so soft as to yield to the impression of the nail, it will last very many years. The roof IS thatched ; the gables have stone tablings (barge stones), and the summer stones are cut in the form shown by k, in fig. 321. Sometimes the tabling, i, is formed of brick, but the summer stones are always required to be of stone. Figs. 322 and 323 are sections of stone window mullions, such as are common in the neighbourhood of Salisbury, and which are there considered very ornamental. Where stone is too expen- sive, these mullions may be made of wood. Fig. 324 is a plan of the chimney tops." 364. General Estimate. Cubic contents, 12,336 feet, at 6d. per foot, .£303 : 8s.; at 4d., ^205 : 125. ; and at 3d., £l57 : 14s. 365. Remarks. The shoemaker, we are informed, " preferred being his own Archi-