Page:An Encyclopædia of Cottage, Farm, and Villa Architecture and Furniture.djvu/669

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DWELLINGS FOR FARM SERVANTS. 645 a perspective view, with some improvement made in the chimney-tops, with a sliglit porch, and with three panes of glass, sliown in the garret-door. 1363. General Estimate. The 1230 actual cost of this liabitation, with its dependencies, in the neigh boiirliood of Paris, is ^160; and the average for the departments, £96. As the cubic contents of the building are 12,852 feet, this gives 2jrf. per foot as the price for estimating buildings of this description in the neighbour- hood of Paris ; and 1 jd. per foot for the provinces. 1364. Remarks. We cannot suf- ficiently express our approbation of the generous feelings which induced the author of this Design to bestow so much attention on all its various details. He may be truly said to have done more for the habitation of the farm labourer than all the other French and British Architects put together. Indeed, it has never formed any part of the business of Architects of eminence, either in France or Britain, to study the improvement of the habitations of the poor ; for these obvious 1232 '^W 1233 -'a V