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 184 COTTAGE, FARM, AND VILLA ARCHITECTURE. 326 ' gimiJigfrMmTg Design LI^'^. — Tivo Cottage Dwellings fur Labourers, under One Hoof. 361. Accommodation. The larger dwelling, fit for a man with a large family, will contain three rooms on a floor, with a cellar under the stairs, and a wood-house behind ; besides a cow-house, pigsty, &c., in a small farm-yard. The smaller dwelling is intended for an old couple, and contains only two rooms. The details of the larger dwelling are as follow : — a, the porch ; b, the kitchen ; c, the back kitchen ; d, the steps down to the cellar under the stairs ; e, the dairy and pantry ;y, the wood-house ; g, the pump ; h, the hay-stack ; t", the wood-stack ; k, the privy ; /, the cow-house; mvh twopigsties; and n, the dung-pit. In the chamber floor there are three bed-rooms, over b, c, and e. The smaller dwelling contains a kitchen, o, with an oven on one side of the fireplace, a closet on the other, and a pantry under the stairs ; a back kitchen, serving as a wash- house, p ; a wood-house, g ; a wood-stack in the yard, r ; privy, s; pigsty, t; and dung-pit, u. There is one bed-room, and an apartment over p and y, in the chamber floor. 368. Construction. The walls of the ground floor are shown i ne elevation, fig. 328, as built of stone, and the upper part of the building of framed work ; the panels to be filled in with lath and mud plaster, or with wattled work ; and, in whatever way done, plastered with lime mortar outside. The roof is of thatch, and the chimneys of stone. 369. General Estimate. Cubic contents, 15,360 feet, at 6d. per foot, ig384. ; at 4rf., ir256. : and at '6d., £192. 370. liemarks. The contributor of this Design oflTers the following observations upon it : — " Double cottages have several advantages, especially in a scattered village. Two cottages are built cheaper, if united, than if separate ; and the effect is often more