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 368 COTTAGE, FARM, AND VILLA ARCHITFXTUIIE. means the fireplace of the oven is sufficiently low to admit of the flue from it passing under the dining-room floor ; or the same purpose may be effected by having a few steps down to the oven furnace. There may be an upright flue from the oven, for use during summer. Tlic stairs down to the wine-cellar are shown with a line across the steps, indicating that it is to be constructed with double treads, in order to gain space, as shown § 164, fig. l."}?. The windows in the roof are double; the outer sashes being glazed with small panes, to resist hail ; and without cross bars, like hot-house sashes. The inner ones are upright, and hung in the usual manner. A line passed diagonally- through this house, from the south to the north, should intersect the centre of the farm- yard, which would thus be completely overlooked from every part of the parlour, s, which for that purpose has windows on both sides. Fig. 751 is the elevation ff the 'entrance or south-west front ; fig. 752 that of the south-east front ; and fig. 753 is a perspective view. This building might be erected, in the neighbourhood of London, reckoning labourers' wages at 185. a week, and carjjenters' at 25s. a week, for ^250 ; and, were there no duty on glass, the sum would be much lower ; because, the floors and walls being of earth or composition, and the roof of short pieces of timber and thatch, the chief expense is incurred in the doors and windows. 741. A Farm House with an enlarged degree of Accommodation, but still on the most economical plan, for a country where the cheapest material for the walls is earth, and for covering the roof, thatch, might be formed from the same ground plan, with a story over it. The change in the destination of the apartments shown in fig. 749 may be as follows : — r may be an office, the window serving also as an outside door, for the entrance