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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



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DESIGN FOB A COFNTB.Y HOUSE. 



We herewith present a design for a bracketed 

 country house of two and a half stories. This is 

 the fourth of the beautiful series de-signed ex- 

 pressly for our columns, by George E. Harney, 

 Esq., cf Lynn, and will be found to combine ele- 

 gance and comfort, with cheapness. Our engra- 

 ver, in transferring the design to wood has omit- 

 ted a couple of large sky-lights in the roof which 

 serve partially to light the attic chambers, and 

 add much to the appearance of the building. It 

 consists of a main body and an ell ; the main 

 house is square in plan, and measures 36 feet on 

 each side ; the ell, containing kitchen and its offi- 

 ces, is 18 feet by 26, and one story and a half in 

 height. 



The disposition of the several apartments of 

 the house is as follows : 



The front entrance porch. No. 1, opens into a 

 vestibule. No. 2, 5 feet by 9 ; from this vestibule 

 we enter the parlor, No. 3, which is 18 feet square, 

 and contains a good sized closet. 



At the farther end of the vestibule, a door, the 

 upper panels of which may be glazed, opens into 

 the staircase hall, No. 4 ; this hall contains stairs 

 to the chambers above, under which is a flight 

 leading to the cellar, and opens into the follow- 

 ing rooms: 



No. 5, office or library for the master of the 

 house, so situated as to be convenient to the door 

 opening upon the recessed veranda, No. 6 ; No. 

 7, kitchen 16 feet square; No. 8, store-room 7 feet 

 6 inches by 8 feet ; No. 9, pantry 8 feet square, 

 containing pump and sink, and leading into the 

 private yard, No. 10. This yard is to be enclosed 

 by a lattice fence 7 feet high. 



No. 11, living room, 15 feet by 16, containing 

 a large closetfand communicating, by means of a 

 passage way. No. 14, with the family bed-room. 

 No. 12. No. 13 is a privy opening into the en- 

 closed yard. 



The second story contains three large cham- 

 bers and a child's bed-room, besides the hall and 

 several closets in the main body, and a servant's 

 bed-room, a large clothes press, and a bathing- 

 room in the ell. 



The third story, or attic, furnishes room for 

 three large bed-rooms and numerous closets. 



Construction. — This house is to be constructed 

 in the same manner as those we have befor' of- 

 fered, namely, vertical boarding and battens for 

 the outside covering, and plain finish with walls 

 prepared for papering for the interior. All the 

 lower windows of the main part are to be shield- 

 ed by hoods 2 inches wide. The roof projects 



