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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



DESIGN FOR A COTTAGE 



Wc copy the following interesting article from the 

 Albany Cultivator, and are indebted to Mr. Tucker 

 for the accompanying engra'V'ing and plans : — 



Eds. Cultivator : Enclosed is a plan and perspec- 

 tive view of a small farm-house. It will be seen 

 by a glance at the plan, that the house is nearly 

 square — the cheapest of all forms. The size is 

 twenty-nine by twenty-six feet, with a hall .and 

 porch, together ten feet square, and a wood-house in 

 the rear, twelve 

 by sixteen feet. 

 The hall is 

 placed in the 

 middle of the 

 fi-ont, and may 

 be lighted by a 

 window on each 

 side, of the width 

 of one glass, or 

 by a window in 

 the door. From 

 the hall, we en- 

 ter the sitting 

 room, which is 

 twelve and a 

 halffcct wideby 

 eighteen and a 

 half long, light- 

 ed by two win- 

 dows, and has a 

 crockery closet 

 at c. At the left, 

 as we enter, is a tirst tlook. 



bedroom, nine by twelve and a half feet, with a 

 large clothes-press under the stairs : passing through, 

 we enter the kitchen, twelve by eighteen and a lialf 

 feet, which is lighted liy two windows, and has doors 

 opening to the pantry, stairway, and wood-house. 

 The pantry (five feet by nine) is liglitcd by one win- 

 dow, and has a door at o, opening on the cellar stairs. 

 In the wood-house. A, is an opening for throwing in 

 wood, six or seven feet from the floor, four feet 

 square, closed by a door ; B is a work-bench, with a 

 •window over it. 



On the second floor are four fine bedrooms, three 

 of which have commodious closets. The garret can 

 be reached through a scuttle near the chimney, by 

 means of a Hght ladder, which, when not in use, 

 might be placed against the wall at L. The first floor 

 is intended to be nine feet high, the second eight. 

 The cellar might be made under the whole house, or 

 only under the back half. is the outside cellar 

 stairway. 



It will be objected by many, that this house has no 

 parlor. This plan is not intended for those who have 

 the means to build a room cspeciaUy for company, 

 but for that large class of farmers who, while they do- 

 sire something convenient and tasteful, cannot aff'ord 

 to pay for a room which they do not use themselves, 

 A glance at the plan will show that it is intended 

 to be built of wood. For the outside covering, per- 

 pendicular boarding is preferable to clapboarding, bo- 

 cause it is firmer and cheaper. I hope the exterior 

 that I have sketched is sufficiently expressive of ru- 



ralness. Although 

 the desire for novel- 

 ty, and the wand of 

 fashion, have done 

 much towards cre- 

 ating the prevalent 

 rage for rural Gothic 

 dwellings, yet the 

 intrinsic beauties of 

 the style will always 

 command for it the 

 admiration of the 

 rural architect, and 

 it has now become 

 so common in most 

 parts of our country, as no longer to be considered a 

 fantastic novelty by the staid portion of our people. 

 All Avho examine the various forms of domestic ar- 

 chitecture can now easily have opportunities of see- 

 ing its beauties and detecting its faults. 



The features which designate principally the style 

 of this building, are the verge-boards and tlic bold 

 projection of the roof. (The roof in the engraving is 

 represented hardly steep enough for the style.) To 

 support this projection, the rafters (wliich should be 

 of rather large size, say six by four inches) should 



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