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 COTTAGE DWELLINGS IN VARIOUS STYLES. 197 arranged ; thus, / may be a cowhouse, formed out of / and k; Tn, a privy ; n, a dairy ; and 0, a pantry With this arrangement, the platform will require the alteration in- dicated at p. 394. Construction. The walls may be of brick or stone, and the roof thatched. One roof covers the whole of the apartments belonging to both cottages, without any guttering, and with only two hips, or pavilion ends. Roofs so simple are particularly eligible for being covered with zinc, or sheet iron, instead of tiles or slates. 395. General Estimate. Cubic contents of both houses, 24,660 feet, at 6d. per foot, £616 : 10s. ; at Ad., £411 ; and at 3d., £'308 : 5s. 396. Remarks. These are comfortable, unobtrusive dwellings, expressive of nothing more than what they are. All that we should wish to alter in this Design, would be the projections of the roof in front, which we would form into one general veranda, and return it also at the ends. Design LXI. — A Dwelling of Three Rooms on the Ground Floor, with a Back Kitchen, and other Conveniences. The ground plan, fig. 342, contains a back kitchen, a ; a 342 397. Acco m modatio n. principal kitchen, or living-room, b ; a best bed-room, c ; another bed-room, d ; with a closet, e; a pantry, y"; a dairj-, g ; a place for fuel, h ; privy, t ; and cow-house, k. 398. Constructioiu The walls are supposed to be of stone ; the roof thatched, and the chimney stacks in square divisions, as in fig. 343, on a scale of half an inch to a foot ; the principal window, Gothic, with labels and mullions, as in fig. 344 ; on a scale of three eighths of an inch to a foot. The chimney stacks as repre- sented in fig. 343., will, as building is now car- ried on in Britain, re- quire to be executed in natural stone, artificial stone, or in brick covered with cement ; but, if the practice of employing ornamental cliimney tops of this kind were general, they might be formed at every pottery of com- mon tile ware, at half their cost in cement. Indeed a great deal is to be done in the commonest earthenware, not only in the way of chimney tops, but in cornices, labels to -indows, string courses, mouldings, ornamental roof and weather tiling, and even in the internal finishing of kitchens, wash-houses, porches, &c. 399. General Estimate. Cubic contents, 9415 feet, at 6d., £235 : Is. : 6d. ; at 4d., £156 : IHs. : 4d. ; and at 3d., £117 : 13s. : 9rf 400. Remarks. There is something mean and depressed in the elevation of this building ; though, to some tastes, this would be a recommendation to it, as a cottage. It is evident, that the main study of the Architect has been picturesque effect, else why so much irregularit)', both in the masses of the ground plan, and in the roof? We do not like the truncated gables ; but there can be no doubt that precedents are to be found for them. We have before observed that some Architects consider their art as one of imitation, even in its higher departments ; and it is certain that the department of Cot- tage Architecture has been hitherto much more one of imitation than of imjjroved de- sign. " The general character of a cottage, as distinguished from that of dwellings of a higher class, is considered by Architects to consist in low walls, and of course low ceil- ings, in small windows rather broad than high, and m conspicuous high-pitched roofs, often with dormer windows in them. We admit, that, taking cottages as they are usually constructed, these features may be said to establish their character ; and hence they are