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 486 COTTAGK, FARM, AND VILLA ARCHITECTURE. 971 z parlour, 6 ; kitchen, c; dairy, d; drying-shed, e; back-kitchen and dairy-scullery, /"; servants' privy, g ; best privy, h ; place for ashes, i ; pigsty, k ; poultry-house, I ; and kitchen yard, m. The offices show a stable for six cart-horses, n ; hackney-stable, o ; cow- house, /> ; calf-house, q ; hammels and yards, r ; house for a loose horse or bull, s ; bay of the barn for unthreshed corn, t ; threshed corn and machinery, u ; straw-house, v ; situation in which cattle-sheds may be extended, w, with yards, x. A pump, placed at y, will supply the whole of the farm-yard, and the kitchen court may have one in any con- venient angle. The rick-yard is at z. 976. Remarks. This Design, by the same contributor, is for what is considered in Northumberland a small farm. " It is chiefly intended for keeping cattle, and may be extended towards the east, as shown by the dotted lines, w, x. The additional hammels, w, may be covered by corn stacks, as roofs, and especially with beans, a very general practice in Northumberland. There is a dwelling, but no buildings are shown, for ser- vants or workmen. The cattle-sheds are all lofted, such lofts forming better granaries for keeping corn than those over close cattle-houses or stables ; because the corn is not injured by the breath of cattle confined below. The whole range of building on the north side of this yard is shown two stories high, for the sake of sheltering the fold-yards. The stables in this Design, and in the two preceding ones, ought to be between sixteen and eighteen feet wide ; and, if a recess with a small window in it were made behind each pair of horses, a convenient place would be formed there for keeping harness above, and for placing a corn or chaff bin below. The light and the ventilation which would be afforded by the window would admit of keeping the stable much more sweet and clean than is usual ; for it is certain, as White observes, that ' there is nothing like light for exposing a negligent servant.' " Design XXI. — The Farm House and Offices for a Farm of Six Ploughs, called HaUington New Houses, on the Beaufront Estate, in Northumberland. 977. Accommodation. The general appearance is shown in fig. 972, and the ground plan in fig. 973. The latter shows the farm house, containing a kitchen, a ; parlour, b ; 972