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 Qlh COTTAGE, FARM, AND VILLA AllCIIITECTURE. Design LXX. — A Cottaiie Dwelling of pour Rooms, with other Conveniences. 435. Accommodation. The ground plan, fig. 366, shows a kitchen, a; parlour, bi best bed-room, c ; bed-room, d ; ggg closet, e; recess for books, _/"; two _ closets, g g ; pantry, h ; wasli- house, I ; potato cellar, and place for lumber, k ; coal-house, / ; and privy, m. 436. Construction. The walls, which have brick footings to the height of eighteen inches above the surface, are of stud-work, covered with weather-boarding without, and lath and plaster within ; the floors of a, b, c, and d, are of boards, and those of the passage and offices of tiles and bricks. The roof is covered with pantiles ; it is in two parts, the higher and wider part being over the living-rooms, and the low narrow division covering the passage and the offices. There is a rustic veranda along one front, constructed of barked oak branches, on which vin s and flowering slirubs are twined. 437. General Estimate. Cubic contents, 11,040 feet, at 6d. per foot, ^276; at 4^., ^184; and at 3d., £"133. 438. Remarks. This Design is executed at Chingford in Essex, and it has been sent us as being very economical in the erection, and very commodious and convenient in the occupation. We have improved the forms, and increased the height, of the chimneys, for the sake of effect, and also in order to make them draw better. Without high, bold, and carefully studied chimney tops, a cottage, to us, is without one of its chief beauties ; and it is, besides, very liable to smoke. Beauty, in this case, as in most others, goes hand in hand with utility. We by no means approve of the plan of having the outside walls of a cottage of wood ; but, in many cases, it cannot be avoided. When an old cottage, with walls of this description, is to be improved, the weather-boarding may be covered either with what is called weather-tiling, of which we shall give a variety of shapes in a .succeeding page, or with tiling so marked as, when put up, to resemble bricks, and known as brick weather-tiling, of which we shall also hereafter give specimens. Much of the effect of such a cottage will depend on the disposition of the flowering shrubs and trees on its veranda and trellised porch. Design LXX I. — A Castellated Lodge, as a Dwelling for a Gardener, or other upper Servant, on a Gentleman's Estate. 439. Accommodation. The ground plan, fig. 367, shows a porch, a ; kitchen, b ; living-room, c ; two light closets, d d ; staircase, with closet under, e ; place for /'~ coals,/; for wood, g ; and water-closet, S f h. The chamber floor, fig. 368, contains two good bed-rooms, i, k ; and two bed- closets, I, m. 440. Construction. The contributors of this Design, Messrs. W. and H. Laxton, have sent the following details. Fig. 369 is a section across the window in the living-room, in which is shown the wall of brick, a ; label moulding over the window, b ; reveal, with splay, finished with cement, c ; frame to the casements, four inches by two inches, with hollow worked on the edge, rebated, and beaded, d ; inch and half Gothic bar casement, rebated on the lower edge, to shut against an iron tongue, let into an oak sill, e ; lintel, four inches and half by three inches and a half, f; platC; four inches and a half by five inches, g ; joists, seven inches by two inches and 867 iL^Jj a half, notched on to the plate, h ; ceiling, • ;