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THE COMPLETE GRAZIER. 



BOOK VIII. 



As it is somewhat difficult to choose where choice is so wide, we must 

 content ourselves with giving one or two examples only, with sug- 

 gestions as to their improvement or modification. 



The provision of any particular class of cottage being decided upon, 

 together with the kind or class of construction, as single- storied or 

 two-storied, the changes may be rung so to say upon these to almost 

 any number of tunes ; so that one or two good examples will enable 

 the reader, if directly interested in the subject, to draw up a series of 

 plans showing different arrangements of the same accommodation till 

 he at last arrives at one likely to meet his requirements. Cottages 

 are either single-storied or two-storied, and these may be erected 

 singly or isolated termed detached, or in pairs termed semi-de- 

 tached, or a number in line termed rows. 



In fig. 234 we show the arrangement of a single-storied detached 



Fig. 234. Plan of Single-Storied Detached Cottage. 



cottage, in which a is the porch ; B the living-room, 10 ft. by 14 ft. ; 

 c bed-room, 8 ft. by 7 ft. 6 in. ; D bed-room, 8 ft. by 10 ft. 6 in. ; 

 E rain-water tank, F coal store ; G water-closet ; w positions of windows, 

 d of doors, / of fireplaces. In this plan both bed-rooms are entered 

 through the living-room, a most objectionable arrangement, and there 

 is no scullery. A capital scullery might have been obtained by taking 

 the coal store and privy to the back, and giving the space E F G to a 

 scullery, entered from the living-room B. By putting the porch in 

 the centre wall, nearest the front wall, an independent entrance might 

 have been obtained to the living-room B and bed-room c, and the 

 second bed-room D might have been entered from the scullery, which, 

 as we have intimated, could have been placed in the space, E, F, G. 



In fig. 235 we give the ground plan (exhibited at the Leeds com- 

 petition of cottage plans) of a detached cottage (two-storied) in which 

 A is the living-room, 13 ft. by 12 ft. 6 in. ; B the porch or entrance ; 



