196 COTTAGE, FARM, AND VILLA ARCHITECTURE. Design LIX. — Two Cottages, of One Room and a Back Kitchen each, under the same Roof. 389. Accommodation. Each dwelling contains an entrance lobby, which serves also as a place for fuel and tools, fig. 340, a ; a kitchen, b ; back kitchen, c ; a place for keeping potatoes, or for poultry or a pig, d ; and a privy, e- 340 390. Construction. The walls may be of stone ; but brick walls, built hollow, would be greatly preferable. The roof may be slated. If desirable, the kitchen floor may be heated by a flue from under the oven in the back kitchen. 391. General Estimate. Cubic contents of both dwellings, 9110 feet, at 6d. per foot, i227 : s. ; at 4rf., £151 : 16s. : 8d. ; and at M., i. 113 : lis. : 6d. 392. Remarks. It is sufiiciently obvious that the expression of this design is that of the subject. Each dwelling can only be fit for a single person ; and the building must be favourably situated, in regard to a dry soil and free air, to admit of sleeping on the ground floor. As it is desirable, in cases where the sitting-room is also a bed-room, to have the bed in a recess, or of such a form as not to oflTend the eye of those who are not accustomed to live in bed-rooms, a press-bed may be employed. Design LX. — Two Dwellings, under One Roof ; each containing Four Rooms, uith Rack liitchai, and other Conveniences. 393. Accovimodation. Each house contains a kitchen, fig. 341, a; back kitchen, 6 ; parlour or bed-room, c; bed-room, d; large bed-room, e; closet,y; pantry, g ; privy, h ; dusthole, i ; and place for fuel, k : or the smaller apartments may be diflerently 341
