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 460 COTTAGE, FARM, AND VILLA ARCHITECTURE. oow-house for five cows, q ; calf-house, r ; cattle-shed, s ; cattle-court, t ; hammel for a loose cow, u ; pigsties for fattening pigs, v ; sties for store pigs, w ; dung-pit, x ; garden, y ; road to the farmery, z ; and rick-yard, §•. Fig. 928, is the front elevation, 928 by which it appears that the house is only one story high ; and fig. 929 is the north- west elevation, in which, at a, may be seen the four vertical slits, two or three inches 929 wide on the outside, splayed to one foot within, in the barn walls, for the admission of air and light : these slits are never above three inches wide on the external surface of the wall, but on the inside are spread out as much as a foot or eighteen inches, to pro- mote a free circulation. 901. Remarks. This is a compact Design, and the house, with its kitchen coiu-t, is more than usually commodious for one of the smallest size : as in most of the others, however, privies are wanting. Design XI. — A Farm House and Farmery, for four Ploughs, designed, and in part executed, in Dumfriesshire. 902. Accommodation. The general appearance is shown in fig. 930 ; and the ground plan in fig. 931. In the latter, the house exhibits an entrance-hall, a; lobby and stair- case, h ; dining-room, c ; drawing-room, d ; library and office, e ; store-room and pantry, /; kitchen, g ; scullery, h ; dairy, i, from which there is a veranda or covered way to the kitchen door ; coal-house, k ; kitchen court, I ; servants' privy, m ; best privy, n ; ash-pit, o ; steaming-house, p ; feeding-house for cattle, q ; loose stable, r J pigsties, s ; stable for eight horses, t ; cart-house, u ; barn, v ; straw-house, w ; horse-walk for threshing-machine, x ; cattle-sheds and courts y ; cow-houses, z ; potato-house, aa ; open courts, Ih ; rick-yard, cc ; dung-court, dd ; pleasure-ground, ee ; and kitchen-garden, ff. Fig. 932 is a plan of the second floor of the house, and of that part of the farmery which is carried up two stories high. In the house there appear four good bed-rooms, a ; a closet, h ; and three servants' rooms, c. The farmery exhibits a hay-loft over the stables, d ; a continuation of the barn, e ; a gra- nary over the straw-house, /; and another granary over the cattle-shed, g. Fig. 933 is a front elevation of the house, with the south-east side of the farmery ; and fig. 934 is an elevation of the north-east side of the farmery and of the farm house. 903. Remaiks. The house is commodious, and the covered way from the kitchen to