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three inches with grouting, which forms a hard bottom, upon which is laid a floorin foot square paving tiles. The roof, as shown in fig. 423, projects, in order to keep the walls dry. 479. Estimate. Twelve of these cottages have been erected on Shooter's Hill, at ^■'115 per pair, under the direction of our contributor, W. Bardwell, Esq., for the Labourer's Friend Society. The cubic contents of the building are 9620 feet ; which shows that 2^d. per cubic foot is the proper rate for making a general estimate for this description of dwelling. 480. Remarks. This Design, which has been pub- lished in Facts atid Illustrations demonstrating the Benefits derived hij Labourers from possessing small Portions of Land, §-c., vol. i. p. 31, was recommended to us, for our work, by its author, Mr. Bardwell. Considering the size of the rooms, these dwellings are certainly remarkably cheap ; and we are informed that, in consequence of the grouted floors and hollow walls! they are the driest cottages in the neighbourhood where they are built. We agree with the writer, who describes them in the work referred to, that, as all the materials are of the best quality, these cottages will be ai durable as they are cheap ; and that they may justly be considered elegant, from the proportions of the openings, the pediment ends, the low pitch of the roof, and " the Doric simplicity of their general form." The quantity of land annexed to them seems large ; but the reason may be that the occupiers are supposed not to have regular employment, and to find a ready market for garden produce. Design LXXVIII. — Six Cottage Dwellings, built at Abcrsi/ehan, near Pontgpool, in South Wales, with One common JFash-hoiise and Bakehouse. 481. The object of building these dwellings, of which fig. 424 is the elevation, and 425 424 the ground plan, both to a scale of five sixteenths of an inch to ten feet, was to aflfbrd lodgmgs ior the workmen of Messrs. Jones and Wilcox, builders, of Bristol, during the