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 230 COTTAGE, FARM, AND VILLA ARCHITECTURE. districts, where it is employed for casing the walls of buildings, whether formed of wood, brick, or stone, to protect them from driving winds that carry with them the spray of the sea, which, from the salt it contains, would otherwise render tlie walls damp. Weather-tiling is also used in some parts of the interior of the country, on the south- west and west sides of buildings, to protect them from the rains, which, in England, are not only more frequent from that quarter than from any other, but which are almost always accompanied by high driving winds. The most suitable weather-tiling, for this purpose, is that commonly called mathe- matical tiling, which is made to imitate bricks; but we shall defer our description of this kind of tiling till some future oc- ^^^^p^^^^^H^^^^S 460. General Estimate. Cubic contents, 18,749 feet, at 6(f. per foot, £"468 : 14s. 6d. ; at 4rf., £.'512 : 9s. : Bd. ; and at 3d., jg234 : 7s. : Sd. 461. Remarks. This Design has been sent us by our valuable contributor Mr. Varden, chiefly with a view of showing the applica- tion of weather-tiling, as practised in the neighbourhood of Guildford, in Surrey. Speaking of the Design before us, its author observes that " it is one of the largest erec- tions for which this manner is suitable. The effect generally pleases, from its homely and comfortable appearance. The masses are usually very irregular, convenience being more studied than uniformity ; nevertheless, sometimes combinations of form occur, that would be highly gratifying to a lover of the picturesque, and might even afford useful hints to the professional Architect. This manner of building requiring an economical plan, the Architect avoids all breaks that are not absolutely necessary, and never allows the roof to project more than is wanted to throw off" the water clear of the walls. Ornament is never intentionally introduced; and there is nothing in this style incompati- ble with the humble character of a cottage dwelling." The ground plan is compact, and the two principal fire-places are against the interior walls. It would have been easy to have changed the position of the oven and boiler in c, so as to have carried up the flues from them along with the others, and thus had only one stack of chimneys instead of two; but our contributor, in all pro- bability thought that the boiler would be more convenient adjoining the sink ; and, perhaps, also, he considered that two chim- neys in the elevation would be more pic- turesque than one. For our own part, we ^^^^ consider that a boiler and an oven, when '—'■'—■- - — — = placed in the interior of a house, add so much to its comfort by serving as reservoirs of heat, that we always regret to see them placed against outside walls. Many persons, we are persuaded, are not sufficiently aware of the great quantity of heat that is generated in an oven, by the consumption of the most worthless looking spray or brushwood, which no good housewife would ever think of burning in an open fire-place. It is only by having an oven, surrounded by a mass of brickwork, that this spray can be properly turned to account; burned in an open fire, its heat is dispersed in the atmosphere, and speedily lost to the apartment; but burned in an oven, and the more rapidly the better, jts heat is absorbed by the brickwork, and continues to be given out slowly diu-ing many