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 COTTAGE DWELLINGS IN VARIOUS STYLES. 71 allow that the truncated gable ends may occasionally be introduced for the sake of variety. The same ground plan, and ge- 116 neral proportion of the different g q O O O OQ parts, including the door and win- O O dows, may be easily adapted to different elevations, according to the circumstances of country, cli- mate, and locality, where it is to q be built ; and the wealth, good taste, or peculiar taste of the builder. In the suburbs of a country village it may be thought p. desirable, as a mark of distinction, to give it a highly architectural character, fig. 114 ; or on an ele- vated situation some might prefer finishing the walls with Gothic O O battlements with narrow embra- CO O C | | ' j O O □ sures, fig. 115, a taste which we have been rather surprised to q ^ O O learn is not uncommon in Ame- rica. In the south of Europe, the southern parts of the American continent, and in Australia, the great luxury of a portico might lead to a continuation of one all round the structure, fig. 116; the columns being either rude trunks of trees, rude blocks of stone, or worked timber, with square stone plinths as bases, and plain capitals, fig. 117. Indeed a colonnade or veranda, when it does not obstruct light or impede ventilation, is a great source of comfort and enjoyment in all countries; it excludes rain and cold in the north, and a burning sun in the south. Design XVII. —A Dwelling with Two Rooms and a Bed-closet, for a Man and his Wife, with an Apprentice or Servant. 150. Accommodatioti. From the vestibule, a, a door leads to the kitchen, b, from which is partitioned off the room for the servant or apprentice, c, barely sufficient for a bed. The bed-room, d, has a dark closet, e, and a light one, /. There is a closet for fuel, g, and some use may be made of the roof, by having an opening in the ceiling, with a trap-door over the porch, and a suitable ladder as will hereafter be described. In the garden are two small yards, surrounded by fruit tree hedges ; one of which, h, is for wood, poultry, pigs, a privy, and in the centre, a tank for liquid manure ; and the other, i, is for a drying-ground, wash-house, place for tools, &c At a short distance from the house, is shown the situation of the spring water well and pump, k, it being never desirable to have this near the dung-pit, or liquid manure tank. The pump in the garden may be considered, by some, as too far from the house, but that well is supposed to be of hard water, and principally for use in the garden. For washing, and other domestic purposes, soft water may be collected on the roof, and filtered as described under the Chapter of Model Cottages, Design I. § 31, or below, in § 151. There is a small building in the corner of the yard, i, which covers a tank for containing the filtered water, and it may be drawn to the house from that, or from any distance, by Siebe's pump, § 33, fig. 10. Various plans for constructing such a tank may be