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 COTTAGE DWELLINGS IN VAKIOLS STYLES. W5 ttclinicallj' called splashing, which will be described hereafter, as being more applicable to cottages in the Gothic style, than to the present town-looking edifice. 411. General Estimate. Cubic contents of both houses, 21,906 feet, at 6d. per foot, ^540 : 3i. ; at 4d., ;f 360 : Ss. ; and at 3rf., i,'2T0 : l.s. : 6d. 412. liemarks. This Design, we are informed, is actually executed, with the ex- ception of the platform. The situation is on the side of a road w iiich passes through a liigh wood, on the ;,teep slope of a hill in Devonshire. The object of the third story is satd to be to show a part of the cottage above the trees, from the windows of the man- sion of the proprietor of the estate, who resides in the vale below. This circumstance shows how much of the beauty of cottages must always be relative ; because, by itself, no one, we will venture to assert, would consider this a handsome building. The two wings or lean-tos are too small to become even secondary parts of so large a centre ; and yet they are sufficiently obtrusive to excite a wish that they were either removed or made larger. In a w ord, they do not co-operate with the main body in forming a whole ; and, though important in a useful point of view, they are worse than useless in point of eitlier architectural or picturesque effect. Design LXV. — J Dwelling, with Three Rooms, and otlier Conveniences. 413. Accommodation. The ground plan shows an entrance lobby, a; kitchen and living-room, b; bed-room, c; back kitchen, d; privy, e ; root-cellar or cow-house, /; pigsty, poultry-house, or place for fuel, ^; dairy,/;; pantry, t; and dusthole, A". The chamber floor contains one good room. 414. Constmcfion. The walls of the main body of the building are shown of stone, the lower part of the centre has rusticated corners ; and the corners of the w ings are plain. Some consequence is given to the entrance door by two projecting pieces on each side, which may be covered with one flat stone, that will thus serve both as a cap to the piers, and as a roof to the entrance. 415. General Estimate. Cubic contents, 13,056 feet, at 6d. per foot, £326: 8s. ; at 4d., £217 : 12s. ; and at 3d., £163 : 4s. 416. Remarks- This dwelling is neat, and has an air of comfort. There are some faults in the ground plan, one of which is, the want of a cupboard closet in the kitchen ; but this is probably intended to be supplied by a corner cupboard and dresser. The wall enclosing the stair, considering that it is to be carried up two stories, is not of propor- tionate thickness, and a door should have been shown to the closet under the stairs. The terrace requires a plain parapet, which might consist of a pigeon-hole wall, terminat- ing in a row of flower troughs of the kind delineated in fig. 198, § 222; and there might be piers at the corners, finished with vases, or with the square flower troughs, fig. 199, § 222. Design LXVl A Cottage Dwelling of Two Rooms, uith a Smithy, Shoeing-Shed, and Three-stalled Stable. 417. Accommodaiion. This is evidently a building for display, and therefore it may be called an ornamental smithy. It depends for beauty principally on its arcade, and its far-projecting Italian roof. The ground plan shows the walk under the arcade, a ; the entrance passage, b; kitchen and living-room, c ; pantry, d; bed-room, e ; child's bed- closet,/"; shoeing-shed, g ; forge and smith's shop, h ; three-stalled stable, i; women's privy, k ; and common pri'y, /. 418. Construction. As this building has a great extent of walling in proportion to the number of openings, all the walls, w ith the exception of the piers and arches, might be built of earth, or of some other cheap adhesive material. The roof may be covered with Grecian tiles. The stable should be fitted up in the usual manner, with hay- rack, manger, &c. ; and the shoeing-shed ought to have rings in the walls for the bridles or halters of the horses being shod, to be fastened to ; but it will not require either racks or mangers, as horses should never be allowed to eat during that operation. Such a building as the present is very well calculated for being covered with an iron roof; be- cause the span is considerable, and the form simple. There are three kinds of iron roofs, any of which might be adopted for this building. The first is the cast-iron roof; one kind of which, the invention of Carter of Exeter, has been already described, § 153 ; the second is the Russian roof, of wTought-iron rafters and sheet-iron plates ; and the third is the newly invented corrugated iron roof, without rafters of any kind. We shall here shortly describe the last two. 419. Iron Roofs, as constructed in Russia. The rafters, in the better description of houses, are for the most part of wrought iron, and of very small dimensions ; they are constructed on the same general principles of trussing as wooden rafters. In smaller houses, the rafters are of timber ; and in these houses, whether iron or wooden rafters