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 MODEL COTTAGES. 2S Design III. — A Cottage of Two Stories, combining the Accommodations and Conveniences of Design I. differently arranged, and with an additional Bed-room. 47. Accommodation. The same general accommodations are here given as in Designs I. and II. ; but there is a second story, and this contains four bed-rooms. There is no cellar- floor, but there is a back kitchen, the floor of which is a few steps lower than that of the principal one. Into this sunk kitchen the oven opens, from which the flues proceed which heat the best kitchen and the parlour ; unless it be considered desirable to have a boarded floor in the latter apartment ; in which case, the courses of the flue will be confined to the floor of the kitchen. The following are the details of the ground plan, as exhibited in Design III.:— a, Kitchen. b, Parlour. c, Back kitchen, the descent to which is by five steps. d, Bed-room staircase, under which are the oven and boiler ; the former with its flr.e under the kitchen and parlour floors, which are both paved with tiles or stone. e, Sink, supplied as in Design I. from a filtering-tank. /, Dairy and pantry. g. Women's water-closet. h. Tool-house and men's water-closet. i, Cistern for water-closets, with tank or well under, place for ducks and geese, and ladder to poultry-house at one side. /:, Cow-house. /, Place for wood, or other fuel. m, Open yard. n, Pigsty. 0, Dung-pit. p. Faggot-shed. q, Well, for the regulating plugs to the manure tanks, or cesspools. r r. Cesspools. s, Shelves for bee-hives, with dove-cote over, and dog-kennel under. 48. The Bed-room Floor is exhibited in detail in fig. 21. a and b, over the back kitchen and dairy, are on a lower level than the bed- rooms, c and d, over the Kitchen and parlour. The positions of the diff'erent beds, chests of drawers, and dressing-tables, in the diff'erent rooms, are indi- cated by outlines, as in Designs I. and II. ; and the vacuity in the exterior wall is shown as in the ground plan. The vertical profile of the lean-to, containing the cow-house, water-closets, and wood-house, is also shown. By vertical profile, is to be understood a view, looking down vertically upon any object. The walls and ceilings of the bed- rooms are supposed to be finished with two coats of plaster,without cornices, but with the usual fittings and finishings of joiner's work, as given in detail in the spe- cification of DesignV 1 1. The bricks used in the exterior surface of the outer walls, should not be of a harsh red colour. Ft. 10 In this figure, the bed-rooms, A, 49. The Levels of the different Floors are shown by fig. 22, which is a section on the lines A B, in Design TIL, and in fig. 21. In this section may be seen the level of the open yard,