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COTTAGE DWELLINGS IN VARIOUS STYLES. 223 Design LXXII. — A Dwelling of Six Rooms, with various Conveniences. 452. Accommodation. From the entrance and staircase, a, there is a kitchen, b ; with baclc kitchen, c ; and pantry, d : there are two good parlours, e and f; a cellar, g ; which, if thought necessary, might be connected with the kitchen ; a place for fuel, h ; dusthole, t ; and priNy, k. The chamber floor contains three good bed-rooms, /, m, and o ; and a light closet, p. 453. Construction. The walls are supposed to be rubble-stone ; the roof covered with slate ; and the chimney tops, coping of the side walls, and tabling of the gable ends of tooled stone. The doors and windows have plain stone facings. The guttering is formed as in fig. 120. 378 379 380 381 454. General Estimate. Cubic contents, 22,839 feet, at 6d. per foot, ^^520 ; 9s. : 9d. at 4d., jg380: 6s: 6d. ; and at 3d., £2ti5 : 4s. : lO^d. 382 383 384 385 455. Remarks. This building will be known at once to be in the Scotch style. This style, which is also common in the north of France and in Flanders, prevails in all those parts of Scotland where freestone is abundant ; varying sometimes with plain tabling • with the tabling stones raised one above another like the steps of a stair, as in Design XI. ; or in various other forms, as in figs. 378 to 385. As the chief characteristic beauty of this manner of building depends on the gables, we have given these different forms, which the reader may vary at pleasure. The next characteristic is the storm-head windows, fig. 386; and these admit of as great a variety as the gable ends. A third distinction of this stj-le is the facings to the doors and windows, which may also be con- siderably varied. The chimney tops are generally very simple. Loopholes