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 COTTAGE DWELLINGS IN VARIOUS STYLES. 35 Design VI. — A Dwelling for a Man and his Wife with an Apprentice, Servant, or groum-up Son or Daughter, 69. Accommodation. This neat little dwelling contains only one large room or kitchen, a; a small bed-room for the master and mistress, h ; and a store closet, c. Included under the lean-to at one end, is a privy, d, and a place for fuel, e, and there is a porch in front,/. The servant, or growm-up son, or daughter, is supposed to sleep in the large living room, or kitchen, in which, the situation of a bed is indicated ; it being frequently requisite in the case of gate-houses, ferries, or bridges, to have one of the inmates sleeping near the door, for the convenience of rising in the night-time to open the gate, take toll, &c. The use of the space between the ceiling and the roof may be obtained by having a trap door over the porch. 70. Construction. The walls may be either of brick or of stone. The roof may be covered with slates, projecting a few inches over the walls, and delivering the water into a gutter, fig. 36. The doors are ledged, and hung with ornamental hinges (fig. 37, to a scale of three quarters of an inch to a foot), fixed on the outside. 71. General Estimate. Cubic contents, 5,230 feet, at 6rf. per foot, £130 : 15*. ; at Ad., £87 : 3« : 4rf. ; and at Zd., £65 : 7s : 6rf. 72. Expression. There is obviously something more intended here than the mere ex- pression of the subject. The peculiarity of the hinges of the door, the small loop-hole opening over it, and the pinnacle by which the gable end is terminated, are intended to give some character or expression of style to this cottage ; though we cannot refer to any known sub- style or manner which may be considered its prototype. The elevation, however, presents a very neat whole, and though not striking, is at least agreeable. It might be enriched by suitable chimney pots, and to be complete, ought to have a parapet on the terrace, fig. 38. Design VII.— .,^ Dwelling of Two Rooms, and a back Kitchen, for a Man and his Wife. 73. Accommodation. This dwelling is deficient in closets, which are always more or less useful, either in a small house or a large one ; it is, however, substantially built, and com- fortable. There is an entrance lobby, a ; a room, b, containing a bed, which may serve also for a working room, and which, in Scotland, very generally serves for a parlour ; a kitchen, c, well lighted, and with two cupboards ; and a back kitchen, d, which forms part of a lean-to. One end of this back kitchen may be partitioned off as a pantry. In the lean-to there is also a place for fuel, e, and a privy,/; which last communicates by a drain with the well of the dung-pit. 74. Construction. The walls may be built of rubble stone, with rusticated corners (that is, the joints channelled, or cut in grooves), as shown in the elevation ; and as is very'j generally practised in countries abounding with free stone. .' There is an obvious propriety in the practice of building '■ the corners with large and square stones ; because the corner of a building, from being exposed to the weather, and to accidents from coming in contact with persons or objects on two sides, in order to be equal in durability with the general face of the wall, must be formed of a more solid, homogeneous material. It is not, as some might suppose, that the corners require to be built thicker than 39