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 9'21j cottagb, farm, and villa architecture. may be exposed to the eye at the same time. It must, however, be confessed that to do this with propriety is, in common with the treatment of Pointed Architecture in general, a matter of great hazard to the mere amateur. 161S 1870. General Estimate. The cubical contents of the house itself will average 1 1 7,7 13 feet ; which, at lOrf. a foot, amounts to £"4904 ; 14s. : M. Those of all the out- buildings, together, are 24,645 cubic feet, which, at 9d. a foot, is £92^ : 3s. : 9d., making the whole expense ^^5828 : 17s. : d. 1871. The preceding Design illustrates an attempt at the composition of a viUa in the latest style in which Pointed or Gothic Architecture existed in its purity. It has not, indeed, been our object here to present to the eye an elaborate and costly display of all the domestic resources of Tudor magnificence, or to please the fancy of the staunch anti- quary with the representation of a quadrangular pile, rigidly fashioned after the models of the year 1500; but to offer to the man of moderate fortune, and Old English taste, a Design which may be characterised by convenience, architectural propriety, picturesque effect, and simplicity of decoration, while it possesses the essential recommendation of being within the limits of economy in the execution. Its general character and various accommodation will, it is hoped, be sufficiently comprehended upon a comparison of the drawings with their references. The understanding, however, of its constituent parts.