42^ COTTAGE, FARM, AND VILLA ARCHITECTURE. both to a scale of one eighth of an inch to a foot. The columns here, it will be observed, are twisted ; a practice not unfrequent in old English cottages of the better kind, and which is in perfect accordance with the enridied barge boards and the turned balusters of the balustrade. Fig. 857 shows the plan of the drying-porch. Fig. 858, to a scale of one inch to a foot, is a section across the balustrade, in which a is the top rail, and b the bottom rail. Fin-. 859, to the same scale, is a section of the moulded face of the beam, c, in figs. 855 and 856. Fi"-. 860 is a section of the top of the columns, on which the beam, c, is placed. Flo'. 861 is a section of the base of the same columns. Fig. 862, to a scale of one fourth of an inch to a foot, shows one of the piers to the parapet of the terrace, supposed to be of stonework ; in which d is the line of the solid ground ; e, the surface of the new ground ; /, the level of the terrace ; g, rough stone- work J and h, worked stone. 858 Fig. 863 shows the bottom part of the gable post, seen in fig. 865, and which also serves as a pattern for the pendants from the verge boards. The scale of this figure is two inches to a foot. Fig. 864 is a section across the eaves of the roof, in which are seen the face of the wall, i; the bed moulding, k; the soffit, I; the situation of the bracket, m; the eaves moulding, n ; the rafter, o ; and the eaves board, p. The scale of this figure is two inches to a foot. Fig. 865 is a view of part of the barge board, and the gable post ; in which are shown the sunk panel, q, of the pinnacle ; the gable post, r ; the pierced openings in the verge board, s s ; the raised ornaments on the same, t t ; the cross section of the verge board, u u ; and the cement verge of the tiling, v v. The scale of this figure is two inches to u foot.
