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 634 COTTAGE, FARM, AND VILLA ARCHITECTURE. Desio-n IV. — A roomi/ Cottage for Farm Labourers, erected in Gloucestershire, on tho Estate of William Lawrence, Esq., near Cirencester. 1345. Accommodation. There are, in this cottage, an entrance, fig. 1207, a, with a staircase down to the cellars and up to the bed-rooins ; a living-room, h, with an oven. c; a baclc-kitchen, or room for washing utensils, &c., d; a covered pigsty, e; a yard to ditto, /; a shed for fuel, g ; and a privy, h. There is a cellar under the passage and cellar stair ; and the lobby, and place under the ascending stairs, in the summer season, may serve as a sitting-room. Fig. 1208 is a plan of the chamber story, in which are a 1208 ■J~n.r U 't J w J w/~ good bed-room with a fireplace, r, and another bed-room, k. Fig. 1209 is a geometrical elevation of one end, and fig. 1210 a perspective view of the front. 1 346. Construction. The walls are of the native limestone, two feet thick at the base, tapering to nineteen inches at the wall-plate of the roof; the floors of the living-rooms are boarded, and those of the other places paved with the local flag-stone ; the roofs are covered with grey slate. 1 347. Estimate. The actual cost of this cottage, in the neighbourhood of Cirencester, was ^^260. As the cubic contents are 14,209 feet, it thus appears that the proper amount for a general estimate, in the given locality, is A^d. per foot. 1 348. Remarks. Such cottages were erected on the estate of the celebrated surgeon, and translator of Blumenbach, William Lawrence, Esq. ; a man alike distinguished in his profession for his scientific knowledge, and in the moral and political world for his liberal and enlightened ideas. His estate is under the care of his brother, Charles Law- rence, Esq., who not only possesses great taste in landscape-gardening and ornamental