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 COTTAGE DWELLINGS IN VARIOUS STYLES. 237 and labels to the doors and -windows, which are intended to have stone sills ; the roof is to be thatched with reeds, and the chimney tops are to be formetl of Roman cement. The whole is to l>c embraced by a platform on three sides. 475. General Estimate. Cubic contents, 13,308 feet, at 6d. per foot, £332 : 14*. ; at 4d., 1221 : 16s. ; and at 3d., £166 : 7s. 476. Bemarks. This Design, which has been sent to us by our much-valued contri- butor, Samuel Taylor, Esq., of Stoke Ferry, Norfolk, is calculated for being built of chalk-stone, which forms the cheapest material of that country, and for being covered with reeds, the produce of the adjoining fens. It forms a comfortable and commodious dwelling, expressive of what it is ; and, from the height of the walls and the proportions of the windows, is rather elegant than otherwise. We cannot justify the Gothic labels over the doors and windows, immediately under a far-projecting roof; because no other part of the building is in the Gothic style, and because labels of any kind, in such a situation, cease to have any character of use. " From truth and use all beauties flow." {Epistle to Lord Lowther on Building and Planting. ) DesioTi LXXVII. — T7ie Model Cottages af the Labourer s Friend Society, as erected at Shooter^s Hill, Kent, These cottages are built in pairs, in such a manner as to have 420 ^ "x7 15^10 1 1 421 XL 10-4x 6-2 477. Accommodation. the fireplaces in the party walls ; the ground plan, fig. 420, shows, for each cot- tage, an entrance- porch, a ; kitchen, h ; pantry, c ; and closet under the stairs, d. The chamber floor, fig. 421, shows two good bed-chainbers to each cottage, without fireplaces. ThepriN-y, pigsty, and other con- veniences, are built apart. To each double cottage are annexed two acres and a half of land. 478. Construction. The walls are raised on grouted foundations (grout is com- posed of fresh limo and gravel, mixed, and imme- diately thrown in, beaten down, and left some days to consolidate), two feet broad and two feet deep ; over which are two courses of twenty-two inches in viidth, and two of eighteen inches, as a footing, and four courses of fourteen inches as a plinth. ITie walls above are nine inches, and hollow, and one course of slates is laid before the floors commence. The bricks are all hard stocks ; the timber Swedish or Baltic ; the window sills and landings of York stone ; the chamber flooring of inch and quarter deal, ploughed and tongued (a groove made along the edge of one board, and a tongue or projection worked along the edge of the other, to fit into it, fig. 422) ; the window casements are of iron, and the roof slated. The course of slates is laid along the walls, just beneath the gi-ound floor, in order to pre- vent the damp from rising through the vacuities, which are two inches wide, being formed in the manner shown in fig. 7, § 25. The brickwork is worked to a smooth face inside, and not plastered, but only whitewashed. The outside of the walls is thus left rough, and it is brought to an even surface by rough-casting it with a mix- ture of lime and fine gravel, which, when completed, has the colour and texture of Bath stone. The floors of these cottages are fifteen inches above the general level of the surromidiiig ground : twelve inches of this space is filled with gravel, and the top r'l ;i 'e: ^9l I II 'II :i la 13.3X8-6