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 far:m houses and farmeries in various styles. 545 and, in order that we should maintain the character of ' good,' it is necessary to make the accommodations and appearances correspond with modern refinement, which we have endeavoured to do in the present Design. In fig. 1070, to a scale of 48 feet to an inch, the bar, a, is represented with a bow window, overlooking the road, and is surrounded on the other sides by the entrance lobbies and staircase, being warmed from the back of the kitchen range. The dining or club room, b, is proposed to be occasionally used as a magistrates' petty sessions room ; the two small parlours, c and d, have cellars under them ; the kitchen, e, is approached from the yard, x, by a small porch ; and this kitchen should have a cooking-range, copper, oven, &c., and must be used also as a back-kitchen ; but the family washing can be done in the brewhouse, s. There is a dairy, f; pantry and store-room, g ; and there are six sleeping-rooms on the first floor. There is a butcher's sale-shop, h ; a lock-up stable, i ; a coach and gig-house, j ; a slaughter-house, k ; and an open stable, / ; with hay-houses, m m. Two open lodges are shown at n ti, with stack staddles over their flat stone roofs. There is a barn, o, with a wicket at each end to pitch in the stacks. There is a cart-house stable at p ; a loose box for a hackney, q ; a cow- house, r ; brewhouse, s ; cart-lodge, t ; place for fowls, fuel, and women's privy, v ; a yard for driven cattle, iv I ; a yard for farm cattle, w 2 ; and a paved yard, x, with pump and water-trough. The house and brewhouse are supposed to be supplied by underground pipes. There is an orchestra at y ; and two verandas for playing at skittles, or for separate alcoves or pavilions for taking refreshments in, z z. There is a kitchen-garden, A ; a bowling-green and tea-garden, B ; a parish road, C ; and a turnpike road, D. 1150. Construction. The walls may be of rubblestone, bricks, or clay lumps; and the roofs covered with slate. 1151. Eejnarks. This Design is supposed to be in the plainest possible style; and it is intended to introduce drains, manure tanks, and every other economical arrangement, in its details." We consider this a very complete Design of its kind; its author is not only a scientific Architect and engineer of considerable practice, but he has also had much experience in farming, in the county of Norfolk. Design XXXVII. — A House and Out-buildings for a Cheese Dairy Farm of from 300 to 350 Acres, in Cheshire. 1152. Accommodation. The ground plan of the house, which we have not given, con- tains a parlour, dining-room, kitchen, or, as it is called in Cheshire, a house-place, 1071 J " L B .tr staircase ; pantry, with a cellar under ; dairy, with cheese bench ; situation for cheese- presses, and boilers, there are a milk-room, with a cheese-room over it ; and a salting- house, also with a cheese-room over it. The farmery contains four cow-houses for six cows each, 7n ; and two for twelve cows each, o ; with foddering bays, n, and cleaning- passages, p, between. There are in the barns two corn-bays, q, and a threshing-bay, r, where the machinery would be placed if a threshing-machine were employed. There 3 o