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 ^l!^ COTTAGE, FARM, AND VILLA ARCHITECTURE. It Keems better calculated for a small public-house, or coffee-house, to be placed on an eminence, commanding a fine prospect, or close by a river. The room a might then be the kitchen, and public sitting-room for guests, and there might be a good cellar under it ; d and c might also be for guests, the bed recesses being concealed by folding- doors ; and the room uj) stairs might be considered the principal room, as it would have the best prospect. The expression of the Design is somewhat Italian, but it wants the characteristic tiles. It will never be erected where economy in the construction is an object. Design LXIX. — A Cottage PwelKng, in the Old English Style, with Kitchen, Parlour, Business Room, Three Bed-chambers, and other Conveniences. 431. Accommodation. The ground plan, fig. 361, to a scale of 20 feet to an inch, contains a porch, a ; a lobby L, 13.0X12 IS. y 10,0 OlLUiLllL 361 O.J.' o.6 Ca 1T.0XIS..0 d r¥ and passage, with staircase, h ; a kitchen, c ; a wash- house, (/, with boiler, wash- ing-trough, and sink ; a store-room, e ; pantry, f; business room, g ; closet, /; ; and parlour, i. The cham- ber floor, fig. 362, contains three bed-rooms, k, I, and m ; and a closet, n. The other requisite conveniences are supposed to be placed in the garden. 432. Construction. The walls may be of brick, or of rubble- work, with corners of squared stone. The roof is supposed to be covered with plain tiles, having barge boards against the west gable, as shown in the elevation, fig. 363 ; and also against the east gable, as shown in the elevation, fig. 364 ; and with the two other gables truncated, as may be seen in the south elevation, figs. 365 and 363, and in the perspective view, Design LXIX., p. 215. There are Gothic labels over tlie kitchen and parlour windows ; and the window of the business room projects in the manner of an oriel, as mav be seen in figs. 363 and 365. Perhaps" it may be thought by some of our readers, that the chimney tops in this Design, and in a num- ber of others, are carried too high ; that is, higher than can be of any use, either in creating a draught for the smoke, or in ren- dering the dwelling more ornamental. Now we are prepared to give our reasons for denying these suppositions. In the first place, it is known and acknowledged, both in theory and practice, that the simplest and most effectual mode of producing a draught in a flue, so as to cure a smoky chimney, is, to add to its top a long narrow funnel. This funnel is, in all ordinary cases, an earthenware cylinder of eight or ten inches in diameter, and between two and three feet long : but, in difficult cases, the length is increased to five feet, by employing a longer earthenware tube ; or to a still greater length, by em- ploying those tubes of copper or iron called about London " tall boys." The five feet long chimney pots are made by joining two pots of the ordinary length together before they are burnt : but, as these long pots are liable to be broken in the kiln, the cost of them about London, in 1 832, is 9s. each by retail ; therefore two or more draining tubes, such as are shown in fig. 411, which cost 2s. each, are preferable. In the second place, with respect to ornament, our object is, by clothing these tubes, whatever may be their length, with architectural forms, instead of leaving them bare as is almost universally done, to render them handsome component parts of the building, instead of deformed appendages to it. 362 m, r I ET"'^ ,..._iLliil_ k I 1 — ;— ^ —