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 418 COTTAGE, FARM, AND VILLA ARCHITECTURE. straw, and we think they might be more used than they are, with advantage. Never- theless, thatched roofs have disappeared with the improvement of agriculture in all the more advanced districts of Britain, and have given place to tiles and slates. It would appear, therefore, that mud walls and thatched roofs, like the practice of using oxen in field labours, notwithstanding all that is said in favour of the former for excluding extremes of temperature, and of the latter as combining a working with a beef-producing animal, are fast falling into disuse. Our own opinion, with respect to thatched roofs, is, that in very many cases they are preferable, both for farm buildings and cottages, to roofs of tiles or slates, as these are commonly constructed, even where the latter two are cheaper, because they are less liable to admit through them the influence of every change of temperature. 844. For Details of Construction common to buildings in general, we refer to that part of this work which treats of the practice of building ; or the Architect may consult Waistell's very excellent chapter (v.) on this subject. Chap. II. A Miscellaneous Collection of Designs for Farm Houses and Farmeries, in different Styles of Architecture, and adapted to different Kinds of Farms; with Specifications, Estimates, and accompanying Remarks. 845. The following Designs exhibit various combinations of the separate buildings, courts, and yards which compose a farmery ; and exhibit also farm houses with different degrees of accommodation, from those of the gentleman's bailiff, and of the rent-paying occupier of a hundred acres, to that of the wealthy proprietor who cultivates his own estate. Though there is little room for a display of style in the necessarily simple form of farm buildings, yet we shall endeavour to show in what manner style may be intro- duced even in the humblest of them ; because the farm house is as susceptible of archi- tectural design as any other dwelling ; and -n-hen it is in the same style as that of the farmery, it gives a first impression, which should be found to be echoed, as it were, through all the subordinate buildings. With respect to the arrangement of these Designs, it is enough to say, that, like those of the cottage dwellings in the preceding Book, it is miscellaneous. Design I. — A Bailiff's Cottage, in the Old English Style, intended for the Manager of a Farm in the Neighbourhood of London. 846. Situation. This dwelling, which has been erected at Bury Hill, near Dork- ing, Surrey, the seat of Charles Barclay, Esq., was designed by John Perry, Esq., architect, Godalming, and executed by contract, in 1831, under his direction. It is situated on the south side of the farm yard, which will form the subject of our next Design, and of which the bailiff has the management. We were shown the house and the yard by INIr. Barclay, in October, 1831, and were so much gratified with both, that we requested his permission to publish Designs of them. This permission he kindly granted ; and, l>y the liberality of our excellent friend, Mr. Perry, we are here enabled to give them, with the most ample details of construction, and with the original specifi- cations and estimates signed by the contractors who executed the work. 847. Accommodation. The ground floor, fig. 847, p. 419, contains a porchway, u ; 84S s , ,'llll!li^ t 1 849. hall and staircase, J; parlour, c; pnntry, <7; store room, e; dairy,/; scalding-room, or dairy scullery, g, containing a pump, h ; oven, i ; drying-room, h ; and terrace, /. The,