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 F.vRM HOUSES AND FARMERIES IN VARIOUS STYLES. 4-77 961. Construction. Nortliiiml)erIancl 953 being a county abounding in freestone, the walls are of that material, and the roofs of Baltic timber, covered with Westmoreland slates. Fig. 953 shows a cross section of the dwelling-house. A sj)ecification, applicable to Northumbrian farnis generally, will be given with a suc- ceeding Design. 962. Estimate. The contributor of this Design, John Green, Esq., Architect, Newcastle, having supplied us vnth the amount of the actual cost of the different buildings composing this Design, we liave made out the following table, with a view ot obtaining an approximation to the cost per cubic foot : — Per Foot. d. 2 Estimated Cost. 54 150 178 Actual Cost. £ 50 145 168 177 129 453 130 Contents of the cart-shed, h 6,480 Contents of the foal-house, i, and stable and hay-house, kk 1 8,000 Contents of two hovels, b b 21,432 Contents of the barn, o, and straw-house, with a granary above, n 25,442 2 212 Contents of two cow-houses, r r, and calf-house, 9 18,000 2 150 Contents of two pig-houses, t, with yards 4,804 2 20 Contents of the farm-house, and kitchen offices, a, h, c, d, &c 31,570 3 460 Contents of two cottages, s s 11,520 2| 132 From the above it would appear that, in Northumberland, 2(Z. per cubic foot is a fair sum for estimating farm buildings ; QT.d. for farm houses and their offices ; and 2|rf. for cottages. 963. Remarks. The farm house in this Design is placed on one side of the farmery ; but that circumstance, we presume, is owing to some local peculiarity in the surface ; since it must, when no obstacle is in the way, generally be desirable to have the house so placed as to command the whole of the farm-yard. In this instance there is not a single window of the living-rooms which looks in that direction. We observe that the fireplaces are all made in the outside walls, which would be bad in a country where fuel is scarce and dear, but which is probably thought nothing of in Northumberland, where it is abundant and cheap. Design XVI. • A F^:rm House and Farmery for seven Ploughs, proposed to be exeeiited in Northumberland. 964. Accommodation. The ground plan of the farmery is sj'own in fig. 956 groimd plan of the farm house in fig. 954. The farmer)- contains a cart-shed, a ; stable for eight horses, b ; hay-house, c ; hovels with yards, d, e, f; straw-house, g ; water- wheel and machinery for threshing- machine, and place for threshed corn, h h h ; corn-barn for unthreshed corn, i ; tool-house, k ; hovels with fold yards /, m, n ; foal-house, o ; calf-house, p ; '^ ' L's cow-house, with stalls between every two '•'■ "- cows, q ; stable for sis horses, r ; hay bay in the sfable, s ; tuniip-houses, t t ; roofed part of the pigsties, u u ; cribs for fodder in the fold yards, v v ; kitchen court of the dwelling-house, w ; and stack-yard, x. Fig. 954 is the ground plan of the dwelling-house, in which may be seen a porch, a ; a sitting-room, b ; parlom-, c ; dining-room, d ; store-room, e ; pantry, /; dairy, g ; with a meat-safe indicated on one side at p ; kitchen, h ; back-kit- chen, i ; cleaning-shed, k ; privy, I ; place for ashes, m, and for coals, n. The .surface drainage of the kitchen court, o, is to two iron traps, q q, as indicated
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