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 520 COTTAGE, FARM, AND VILLA ARCHITECTURE, spare stalls, d ; a place for general pui-poses, e ; a tool-house, /; cattle-sheds,*?; straw- house, h ; a barn with a granary over it, i ; a stair to tlie granary, k ; a horse-course under the mill- shed, I; the turnip-house, m; cow- house, n ; cart-sheds, o ; cheese- room, p ; milk-house, q ; calf- house, r ; and poultry-house, s. 1042. Construction. The walls are built of the local stone, 2 feet thick where the buildings are two stories high, and 18 inches thick where they are only one story in height. The stable and cow-house doors are 3 feet and a half wide, and the others 3 feet. The door in the end of the sta- ble is 4 feet wide, and those of the pigsties, poultry-house, and calf-house are 2 feet and a half. The mill-shed is 30 feet in diameter, outside measure ; and the horse-course is 4 feet wide. The timber of the roofs is High- land fir, and the slate is from Westmoreland. Other particu- lars of construction will be found in the specification of a succeeding Design. 1043. Estimate. Cubic con- tents 114,912 feet; which, at Ifrf. per foot, the price which it appears such buildings cost in the High- lands, is ^'837 : 1 8s. 1044. Remarks. This Design, and the three which follow, have been sent us by Wil- liam Ross, Esq., Architect, Bristol ; a native of that part of Scotland for which these; farm buildings are intended, or in which they have been executed. The arrangement of the ground plans of the whole, and the details of the specification given witii the fourth Design, show an intimate acquaintance, on the part of ]Mr. Ross, with the accommoda- tions required; and we therefore consider them as well deserving a place in this collection. Mr. Ross observes that the prevailing winds in the neighbourhood of Tarbat, in Ross- shire, are from the N. W. ; for which reason he has put the low side of the square, and the entrance gate, on the S.W. ; and generally placed the buildings which require to be two stories high on the N.W. and N.E. sides. These are obviously judicious arrange- ments. — In the Design before us, the barn and straw-house are centrally placed ; and the feeding-passages from the latter are convenient. We should have preferred revci-sing the position of the large stable, with those of the tool-house and turnip-house, for the sake of connecting it with the feeding-passage ; but IMr. Ross informs us that it is placed in its present position, agreeably to Waistell's maxim, that the stables and cattle- houses should be near the dwelling-house, to hear when any thing is wrong among the cattle. In a cold country like Ross-shire, it is very desirable to have the pigsties entirely roofed in, as they are in this Design ; and we think the poviltry-house slioidd always be placed adjoining the cow-house or stable, for the sake of heat. The corn-chest and harness-room, connected with the stable, is good and convenient ; the horses are in separate stalls, which ought always to be the case where they are fed on corn, unmixed with cut straw or chaff; because, otherwise, a fast-eating horse, when near a slow-eating one, will take part of his share. Where horses are fed on oats, or succulent food, mixed with chaff or cut straw, they may stand without stalls, as in Norfolk. Design XXXI. — A Farmery for 200 Acres of arable Land, and 300 of Pasture, in the West of Scotland. 1045. Accommodation. The general appearance is exhibited in fig. 1042, and the ground plan in fig. 1043. In the latter are shown, in the house, a lobby, a, 10 feet 4 inches by 4 feet 0" inches, with a staircase and passage; a parlour, fc, 11 feet and a half square ; a dining-room, c, 13 feet and a half square; a bed-closet, d ; a pantry, e; and a kitchen, /. On the floor above arc four good bed-rooms and a bed-closet. In the