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 844 COTTAGE, FARM, AND VILLA ARCHITECTURE. gave rise to the style, and to the form and situation of the principal rooms and windows. This is what ought always to be the case in designing buildings for the country ; and, if it were so, every Design would be an original composition belonging to its particular locality. We admire in t>'5 Design the manner in which the principal pieces of furniture in each room are disposed and could wish that in all plans this mode were adopted. As Villa Architecture impro es, it will go hand in hand with furnishing and landscape- gardening ; and the Vil]a Architect will eventually find himself under the necessity of studying and directing both these accessary departments. Design VI. — A Cottage Villa in the Gothic Style. 1 759. The Situation is supposed to be on a gently elevated surface, on the Surrey side of the metropolis ; the garden and pleasure-ground not occupying more than half an acre, and laid out so as to include a kitchen-garden, orchard, and drying-ground, aviary, green-house, and pits in frames ; the two latter being supposed to be heated from a fire and hot-water apparatus in a hot-house and potting-shed behind the green-house. The general appearance of the house, on entering from the road, will be as in fio-. 1472. 1760. Accommodation. The principal floor, fig. 1473, shows an entrance hall, a, with billiard-table, h ; dining-room, c kitchen, d ; staircase down to the cellar floor, and up to the bed-rooms, e ; library,/; and draw- ingroom, g. The dining-room and 1 473 ^^^ ^ / /-* drawingroom are each twenty feet ^^~ '' ' — square, and twelve feet high to the top of the cornice ; the dining-room is two feet higher in the centre than at the sides, liaving a groined ceiling; or showing the entire struc- ture of the roof. The chamber plan, fig. 1474, contains a sitting or dress- ing room, i, communicating with the best bed-room, h ; two bed- rooms, k ; and a nursery, /. 1761. Construction. The walls are supposed to be of brick, either covered with cement, and coloured to imitate weather-stained stone ; or of brick stained in imitation of the effects of time. All the exterior timberwork is sup posed to be either oak, or well-seasoned deal painted in imitation of that wood; and the covering of the roof should be tiles. Fig. 1475 is an elevation of the entrance font. Fig. 1476 shows the barge-board and pendant of the entrance front. Fig. 1477 shows the corresponding barge-board of the garden front. Fig 1478 is a fac- simile of the gable of a house at Ypres, in Normandy, taken by the Architect, and intended occupier of this house, which it is proposed to imitate on one of the end gables. 1474 ■^=^L.JF^