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 COTTAGE DWELLINGS IN VARIOLTS STYLES. 239 time they were employed in erecting the extensive furnaces of the British Iron Com- pany at Abersychan. 482. Accomnu)dation. The ground plan of each dwelling shows a pa,ssage, with a wooden dresser along the side, fig. 425, a ; living-room, h ; and back-kitchen, c ; over which are two good bed-rooms. There are a wash-liouse, d, with two boilers and two ovens, common to the whole ; and four pri^^es, e e e e. The front room, over the bake- house, belongs to the dwelling,/, which was occupied by the foreman of the masons; and the back room, over the privies, belongs to the dwelling, g, which was occupied by the foreman of the smiths. Each dwelling has a strip of garden-ground behind, and they are all supplied with water by a mountain stream, which afterwards passes through the drains of the prines. 483. Constniction. The walls are of stone, quarried on the spot ; the outside and partv walls are eighteen inches in thickness, and the inside ones one foot. The floors are paved vrith stone, and the roofs covered with grey slate. The elevation, fig. 424, is wliolly without ornament. 484. Estimate. These dwellings cost, including the wash-house, privies, enclosing the garden ground, &c., ^"800, which gives ^£"133 : 6s. : 8d. for each cottage. As the whole line of building contains 61,005 cubic feet, it appears that 3d. per foot is the proper sum for employing in its general estimate. 485. Eemarks. This Design was sent us by our esteemed friend, Samuel Taylor, Esq., as a specimen of a very cheap and simple mode of building dwellings of the lowest degree of accommodation in a stone coimtry. The elevation has nothing to recommend it in point of effect : but, by advancing the wash-house in front ; by putting a screen wall be- fore the pri%'ies behind ; by reversing the position of the doors of the three dwellings on the right-hand side of the centre, in order to get the fireplace of the end one against a party-wall, as well as to maintain uniformity in the position of the doors and windows ; by projecting the roof at the eaves, and forming pediment ends ; by introducing a string 426 course under the bed-room windows ; and by raisiiig and ornamenting the chimney tops, a very superior description both of elev ation and plan, figs. 426 and 427 will be produced.