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 COTTAGE DWELLINGS IN VARIOUS STYLES. 65 Design XVI. — A Dwelling for a Man and his Wife without Children. 143. Accommodation. This building contains a commodious kitchen, twelve feet by six- teen feet ; and it has two windows, in order to admit of a tailor or shoemaker, with his ap- prentice, carrying on work at one window, while the woman's work is going on at the other. A large porch, a, which is lighted by a fanlight from the upper part of the doorway, forms both the entrance to the dwelling, and the passage of communication from the kitchen, b, to the bed-room, c. There is a pantry and store-closet, d, opening. from the kitchen, and a light closet, e, partitioned off the bed-room. The privy, and other conveniences, are sup- posed to be placed at a short distance from the house, and to be concealed by bushes. 144. Situation. This building, having one side with only a small window in it, may be placed against a wood, and so that the en- trance-door may front the south-east. The roof, being of thatch, indicates that it is not intended for a country subject to high winds. 145. Construction. The walls may be formed of stone or mud ; or, in a country where bricks are abundant and cheap, they may be built hollow of brick-work (see § 25). The thatched roof will project over the walls, as shewn in the accompanying sketch, fig. 103 ; in which is shewn the rafter, /, placed at an angle of 30°, and also a wooden moulding, g, imder the projecting thatch. The chimney- stack consists of two circular columns with plain heads, as in the annexed drawing (fig. 104» on a scale of half an inch to a foot). 146. General Estimate. Cubic contents, 10,328 feet, at 6d., £258 : is. ; at id., £172 : 2s : 8d. ; and at 3d., £129 : 2*. 147. The Garden contains two roods and a half, and is divided into eight compartments, with a surrounding border ; the boundary fence being a wall of mud, brick, or stone, against which may be planted fruit trees, or currants and gooseberries, according to the climate in which the design is executed. The compartment, /;, is intended for a plantation of goose- berries, surrounded by a row of dwarf apples ; i, is a plantation of currants and raspberries, surrounded by a row of pears, plums, and cherries ; k, a grrss plot ; /, strawberries ; m, pe- 104 r^ TV rennial spinach ; n, peas ; o, beans ; p, potatoes ; q, the cabbage tribe ; r, onions, turnips, carrots, and other surface and fusiform roots. In continuing the rotation, the compartments n and o, will, of course, be considered as one, and cropped, after (1) the leguminous vege- tables, with (2) potatoes, (3) the cabbage tribe, and (4) roots. The borders round this garden may be devoted to small crops, such as salading, annual spinach, pot-herbs, tart rhubarb, which ought never to be omitted in the cottager's garden, a few plants of hops for their tops as asparagus, and their flowers for putting in beer, and, near the house, flowers and flowering shrubs. 148. Remarks. This Design may be con- sidered as imperfect in point of accommoda- tion, but we introduce it because there are many persons who may be able or willing to build such cottages for themselves or their de- pendents, who, from particular opinions or want of means, might be unable or unwilling to build a dwelling of a better description. If at any future time it were desired to enlarge this cottage, two rooms under a lean-to roof might easily be joined to the wall, s, t, which has but one small window, a communication being opened to such rooms by changing the destina- tion of the kitchen closet. This will give the ground plan, fig. 105, whichmay be considered a tolerably commodious cottage ; not only two additional bed-rooms, u, v, being obtained, but I