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 516 COTTAGE, FARM, AND VILLA ARCHITECTURE. in this Design, but was not thought of in laying it out; the culture of turnips not being extensive when it was built. Potatoes are for the most part kept in pits, and a house for that article is often dispensed with in this district." We consider this Design of con- siderable value, as indicating how to manage farm buildings on declivities. In such situations, where there is a stream, very favourable opportunities frequently occur of driving the threshing-machine by water, with very little expense in forming the head- dam or tail-dam. At Underley Park, in Westmoreland, there is a very complete farm- ery, built on the margin of a stream, the barn stretching across it, and the wheel of the threshing-mill so contrived as to meet the whole of the water of the stream. The banks being thirty or forty feet high on one side, and not much above the level of the water on the other, the corn is carted from the ricks into the bain, and shot down at the feeding-board of the machine ; it is cleaned in the floor below, from which, through a trap-door, it is dropped into the ground floor, or into carts to be taken to market. We saw this farmery in 1811, and then considered it, in this and in various other respects, as remarkably complete. Design XXIX. — The Farm House and Farmery of Starston Place, near Harleston, in Norfolk, suitable for a Farm of 350 Acres under the Norfolk System of Culture. 1033. Accommodation. The general appearance is shown in fig. 1033, and the ground plan in fig. 1034. The house contains a vestibule, a; two parlours, 6, c; an office, d; 1033 a lobby, e ; store-room, /; pantry, g ; kitchen, h ; back-kitchen and bakehouse, i ; back entrance, k ; a dairy, Z; and larder, m. In the farmery there are : — 1 1, barns ; 2 2, porches to ditto ; 3 3, cattle-sheds ; 4 4, cattle-yards ; 5 5, turnip-houses ; 6, cart- horse yard; 7 7 7, cart-horse stables; 8 8, hay-houses; 9 9 9, chaff-houses; 10 10, horse-sheds (open to yard); 1 1, yard for colts ; 12, shed to ditto; 13, stable to ditto; 14 14 14, pens for sheep or pigs; 15 15, pigsties; 16 16, swill-house and cistern; 17, cow and sheep yard; 18, cow-shed (open); 19, cow-house; 20 20, calf-cribs; 21 21, hay and turnip-houses ; 22, horse-pond ; 23, sheds for waggons, carts, and imple- ments, with granary over ; 24, stack-yard ; 25, house for horse- wheel ; 26, chaff engine- house ; 27, shed for implements; 28 28, &c., passages; 29 29, &c., lock-up gates; 30, riding-horse stable, chaise-horse, carpenter's shop, tool-house, &c. ; 31, garden and orchard ; and 32, kitchen-garden. 1034. Construction. All the walls of the buildings and yards are of flintstone, as are those of the barns, to the height of 6 feet, above which they are of studwork, boarded, 14 feet higher. The house and aU the farm buildings are covered witb«lates. 1035. Remarks. This Design was contributed by Mr. Samuel Taylor, the nephew of the proprietor of Starston, Meadows Taylor, Esq., of Diss. The general arrangement seems good; all the cattle-houses and cattle-yards being conveniently situated with regard to the two barns ; and the cart-shed, 23, and carpenter's shop, tool-house, chaise-