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 7'10 MODEL DESIGNS FOR FARM HOUSES. 367 and on the most economical principle of construction, wc may refer to fig. 749. The walls of this liousc may be built of rammed earth, or mud, or clay Hogging, or in whatever manner is cheapest antl best suited to the particular locality ; and, as all the accommoda- tion is on one floor, the highest of these walls need not be more than ten feet above the stone or brick foundation. The accommodations are, an entrance-porch, a, facing the south-west ; a liall or lobby, b ; kitchen, c ; back-kitchen, d ; jjlace for fuel, e ; larder, f; pantry, </ ; place for fuel for lighting fires, and women's water-closet, h ; ale and beer cellar, i ; dairy, k ; room for potatoes and other roots, I ; wine and spirit cellar, m, with a china closet over, opening from the dining-room ; boys' bed-room, n ; lobby to the three family bed-rooms, and to the private water-closet, o ; master and mistress's bed-room, p; girls' bed-room, q ; stranger's bed- room, r ; parlour, s; single men's sleep- ing-room, t (the window of which is also a door, by which they can go out early in the morning without disturbing the family) ; maid- servant's room, u ; dining-room, v ; dry- ing-closet, heated from the back of the kitchen fire, w j'tind projection over the oven, X. There is a flue from the oven across the dining- room, going round the parlour, and back again ; which, with the heat from the drying-closet, will, it is calculated, render open fire- places wholly un- necessary, and there fore none are shown. By examining the section, fig. 750, the simplicity of the construction of this building will be obvious. The outside walls are only seven feet high, but the capacity of all the rooms is rendered sufficiently ample by raising [TTT Ft. 10 the ceiling, as shown in the section. To admit of raising the ceiling, a chain of purlins, fig. 750, y, is placed in the direction shown by the dotted line c b d, &c., in fig. 749, and is carried round the house. These purlins are supported by the cross walls ; and on them, and on the wall surrounding the dining-room, the rafters, which are of short lengths, find a secure support. From the entrance-door to the door of the dining-room there is a rise of two feet, effected by an inclined plane ; and there is also a declination from the door of the back-kitchen to that of the root-cellar, also of two feet, by which