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 FARM HOUSES AND FARMERIES IN VARIOUS STYLES. 441 879. Summari/ of Estimates. Bricklayer 570: 19 Carpenter and joiner 383 : 19 Plumber, painter, and glazier 30: 18 Mason 12 : '6 Total £998: 4: 10 880. General Estimate. As the number of cubic feet in the buildings of this farmery is 73,383, it appears, from the actual cost, that 3^d. per foot will give a near idea of the price of such buildings similarly circumstanced. 881. Remarks. There is no great room for ingenuity of contrivance in a farmery of this description, on a small scale; but the minutiae of the construction, as given in the particular, will be found very useful to those connected with this department of build- ing. The appearance of the whole, as seen in the isometrical ^^ew, fig. 886, is neat, plain, and substantial; the true characteristics of an English farm-yard. The practice of roofing such buildings with hoop chips is little known in Scotland, but is well deserving of imitation in that country; and we should think it would be also found suitable for America and Australia. In some parts of the country the granary would have been supported by stone pillars, instead of oak posts; but it must be recollected that the necessarily increased diameter of the former, occasions a great loss of room in the cart- shed, since no cart can be introduced that will not pass between the piUars. Design III. — A Farm House and Farmery suitable for a Farm of Six Hundred Acres of Turnip Soil, executed at Hahtone, in Dumfriesshire. 882. Accommodation. The ground plan of the house, and its kitchen court and offices, and of the farmery, and its courts and yards, is given in fig. 899; and the general effect of the whole is seen in the isometrical %iew, p. 443. In fig. 899 are shown, in the plan of the house, a drawing-room, a • dining-room, h; parlour, c; bed-room, d; store-room, €; kitchen,/; two pantries, g g; kitchen scullery, with stair to servants' bed-rooms over it, and the kitchen, h; dairy scullery, i; dairy, h; ash-pit, I; and coal-house, m. la the farmery are shown a steaming and boiling house, n; cow-house for eighteen cows, o; hay-house, p; two stables for six horses each, q q; harness-room, r; gateway from the hay-yard and the rick-yard, s; cart-house, t; barn, with a threshing-machine driven by water, u; straw-house, v; calf-house, w • stable for a sick horse, or mare and foal, x; potato-house, y; eight cattle-hammels for feeding twenty head of cattle, z z z. A turnip- house, aa; two cattle sheds and courts, bb; hay and green wood house, cc; piggeries, dd; dung court, ee; passage between the dung court and the buildings, ff; kitchen court, gg; garden, hh; hay-j-ard, ii; barn-yard, kk; straw-yard, U; grass field, mm; and lawn and shrubbery in front of the house, nn. The letters ii to nn will also be found in the isometrical view, p. 443. It will be observed that in this Design there are regular foddering passages to the cattle and cow sheds, and to the hammels; and that the hay and green food houses are judiciously placed adjoining them, for the convenience of ha-ing a supply of food at hand. In the stables the horses stand in separate stalls, and the cows are allowed a width of five feet each. Fig. 900 shows a plan of such parts of the buildings as have a second story, with the roofs of the other parts. In this plan, a and b are two best bed-rooms, with a dressing-closet, t, between them; d is the chamber lobby, and staircase; and e and / are two family bed-rooms; ^ is a nursery or lumber room; k h are two servant's bed-rooms; i is the open yard for ashes and rubbish, in which yard there is a privy; k is the hay-house, or house in which food is stored for the cows; 1 1 are the hay-lofts over the stables; m is the corn-room, over the harness- room; n is the granary over the cart-house; o, the barn; p p p, the yards to the hammels; q q, the yards to the cattle-sheds; r r r r, the yards to the pigsties; s, lobby for supplj-ing food to the four fattening pigsties; 1 1 are two sties for breeding pigs, with doors which open to the dung-yard, u; v is the principal entrance to the farmery from the fields, and from the public road; w is the covered entrance from the rick-yard; x is an entrance from the straw-yard, in which straw is stacked to be given to cattle as wanted for food or litter; y is the entrance from the kitchen court; z is the kitchen-garden, and §•, the lawn. 883. Construction. The walls are of freestone found on the premises, squared, and regu- larly hewn at all the angles and openings, with stone sills, jambs, and lintels. The roofe are covered with blue slates, and the whole of the coiu% passage, entrances, and kitchen court, is paved with granite. 884. Remarks. This Design was furnished us by Walter Newall, Esq., Architect, Dumfries, under whose superintendence it was erected on the extensive estate of the Duke of Buccleugh in that county. It is remarkably complete in point of accommoda-