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 89 h COTTAGE, FARM, AND VILLA ARCHITECTURE. place of the entrance liall, seen immediately opposite the entnv-ce door. Fig. 1579 is a view of one of tlie cliimney tops. 1828. Accommodation, The plan of the principal floor, fig. 1580, shows an entrance porch, a ; and hall, twenty feet by eighteen feet, and twelve feet high, h ; dining-room, twenty- one feet by eighteen feet, c ; drawingroom of the same di- mensions, d; library, twenty feet by eighteen feet, e ; princi- pal staircase, /; stairs to the kitchen, g ; servants' hall, h ; butler's pantry, i ; housekeeper's room, k ; with closets for stores, I; back stairs up to the bed- rooms, in ; and passage, lighted from the back stairs window, n. Fig. 1581 shows the kitchen floor, which extends below the back part of the house only, in which o is the kitchen ; p, the | L ' 1 cooking stoves ; q, the kitchen- I, , I range ; r, the back entrance ; s, the scullery, containing an open fireplace, oven, and boiler ; t, the dry larder, with a 1576 a a u u D D U [J U U a 1577 r™'" *"■■• """""""• }( T" " ' " r i^^vM^ 1578 table in the centre, «, for cold meat; v, the meat larder; w, the coal-cellar; x, places for bottles, shoes, lumber, &c. ; ij, stairs up to the principal floor, indicated by g in fig. 1580; and z, the sunk areas. Fig. 1582 is a plan of the chamber floor, in which a and c are the two best bed-rooms, with their dressing-rooms, b and d ; e is a passage lighted from the back stairs window ; /, four bed- rooms ; and g, a dressing-room. 1829. The Stable Offices are shown in figs. 1583 and 1584. The former contains two double coach-houses, thirty feet by thirteen feet, a ; two three-stalled stables, twenty feet by twenty feet, b ; a two-stalled stable, seventeen feet by thirteen feet, c ; a lobby, twenty feet by ten feet, d, with a staircase to the hay- loft ; a harness-room, ten feet by ten feet, with a fireplace, e ; and two loose boxes for hunters, /. In the two principal stables are two trunks for letting down the hay from the lofts, g ; and corn bins, the lids of which serve as seats, h. The trunks are about twenty inches square, and the corn bins eighteen inches wide, two feet deep, and six feet long each. There are two dung-pits, i t ; and behind is the farm yard, h. 1 830. Construction. All the walling is of freestone, and the roofs are covered with grey slate. The width of the principal