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 4G2 COTTAGE, FARM, AND VILLA ARCHITECTURE. 933 the dairy, gives an idea that something is known about comfort, as the two privies do respecting cleanliness and decency. It is possible that one may walk about this farmery without being shocked on turning every corner ; but even in this respect it is not com- plete, as there should have been a third for the men-servants. It will be observed that the stable and cart-house, and the piggeries, and the three houses, p, q, r, are double buildings, use being made of both sides of the middle wall. This is always desirable when it is compatible with other arrangements, because not only a wall is saved, but guttering ; and both buildings are kept warmer in winter and cooler in summer. On comparing this farmery with the most improved mode of arranging farmeries in North- umberland, the cattle-sheds and coin-ts appear to us too large ; it being found there that not only feeding-cattle, but even store beasts, always do better when three or four, or at most six, are together, than when a greater number are put into the same yard. Judging from the length of rack in the three cattle-sheds, y, one of them is calculated for two dozen, and the others for a dozen and a half each. There are no poultry-houses shown in the Design before us ; and we are surprised that the kitchen-gai'den is not sur- rounded by a wall, which it always is in Northumberland. Design XI I. — The Villa Residence and Farmeri/ of Riddenwood, in the Parish of Kirk- mahoe, Dumfriesshire, in the Occupation of the Proprietor, James Kerr, Esq. 904. Accommodation. The general appearance is shown in fig. 935, and the ground plan in fig. 936. In the latter, the house contains an entrance-hall, a ; lobby, b ; par- lour, c; dining-room, d ; drawing-room, e; closet,/; kitchen, g ; store-room, h ;