Page:An Encyclopædia of Cottage, Farm, and Villa Architecture and Furniture.djvu/671

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DWELLINGS FOR FARM SERVANTS. ()i'7 place in it for tools or fuel, b ; a liing-room, c, with a press, d, and stair to the bed-rooms, e. There is a baek-kitchen, /, with a boiler ; and, beside it, there may be either an open fireplace or an oven, according to the given locality : there is also a pantry, g. The yard behind, h, contains a place for fuel, roofed in, i ; a place for a water-barrel or a pump, k ; a privy, Z ; pigsty, m ; a place for ashes, n ; and for inconvertible refuse, o. Behind the living-room fire, and reaching from the front door, p, to a door into the back-kitchen, r, is a space, three feet wide, separated from the living-room by a four-inch wall, for hatching, rearing, and fattening poultry. The nests are shown on one side of a passage, twenty inches wide ; and there is a partition and door at s, between the hatching and rearing places, t and q. The bed-room plan, fig. 1 237, contains three bed-rooms, «, c, and w ; a light closet, or child's bed-room, over the poultry place, x ; a press, y ; and a 12.S7