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 FARM HOUSES AND FARMERIES IN VARIOUS STYLES. 457 Dssigii VIII. — A Farm House and Farmer]/ for three Ploughs, erected at Alton in Dum- friesshire. 896. Accommodation. The general appearance is shown in fig. 921, and the ground plan in fig. 922. The ground plan of the house shows a parlour, a ; kitchen, b ; bed- room, c ; smaller bed-room, d ; lobby and stair to garrets, e ; scullery, f; and dairy, g. The farmery contains a house for store pigs, h ; two houses for fattening pigs, i ; stable for seven horses, k ; cart-house, I ; straw-house, vi ; barn with threshing-machine, n ; cattle-shed with court, o ; another cattle-shed, also with court, p ; calf-house, q ; byre or cow-house for twenty cows, r ; spare stable, s ; dung-pit, t ; potato-house, u ; kitchen court, V ; and cleaning-shed, w. 897. Remarks. There is something like comfort in this dwelling-house, though a pantry is wanting, as well as certain conveniences in the kitchen court. In the small farm-houses, in Scotland, the dairy is commonly used as a pantry, to the injury of the milk and butter, as well as of the meat and bread. In making these remarks on the want of comfort and accommodation in Scotch farm-houses and farmeries, we hope it wUl not be for a moment imagined that we consider the fault in any degree owing to the Architect : the evil is much deeper seated, and belongs essentially to the state of civilisation. Tlie Scotch farmers are not yet sufficiently free and independent to assert their rights to those comforts and enjoyments which belong to men with equal capital, intelligence, and responsibility, in almost every other country. Design IX. — A Farm House and Farmery for a small Farm for breeding Sheep and Cattle, erected at Holecleugh in Dumfriesshire. 898. Accommodation. The general appearance is seen in fig. 923, and the ground plan 923 in fig. 924. The latter shows, in the farm-house, a parlour, a ; kitchen, h ; bed-room, c ; scullery, d ; dairy, e ; cleaning-shed, /; kitchen court, g ; potato-house, h ; green- meat house, i ; stable for four horses, k ; stable for two horses, I ; three pigsties, m ; cattle-shed, n ; green-food house, o ; cart-house, p ; barn, with threshing-machine driven by water, q ; cow-house for eight cows, r ; calf-house, s ; cow-house for eight cows; t ; and dung-pit, u. Fig. 925 shows a plan of the roofing of the farmery, and the four garret bed-rooms of the house. 899. Remarks. This is a compact and yet commodious farmery, and the house is not altogether without comfort, considering that there are a kitchen-court and a shed. In the cart-house, p, of this Design, and in the cart-house of preceding Designs, by the same most intelligent and experienced Architect, it will be observed that there is a space at one side, which, considering that the carts must be set back in a direct line ■»vith the openings between the piers, must be left empty. This space is purposely provided for harrows, ploughs, and other implements. It will be observed in this plan, as in most others, that there is generally a granary over the cart-shed ; and that the bam is two stories high. Some descriptions of implements, and also boards and other bulky articles, are generally kept under the roof of the cattle-sheds, being laid across the tie-beams. These beams, or the beams of the cow-house, also form the roosting- place of the hens, where there is no poultry-house ; and the ducks or geese, when there are any, take shelter where they can. In Scotland, this description of stock is despised by the large farmer as an article of profit, and not prized as an article of table