JRedleqf, near Penshurst. 



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case leads to three sleeping-rooms in the roof, and down to a 

 cellar, pantry, &c., under the parlour and family bedroom floor. 

 A shed for fuel, which in this part of Kent is chiefly wood, a 

 drying-ground, small kitchen-garden, and other requisite con- 

 veniences, are placed adjoining, and appropriately arranged. 



Elevation of a Cyclopean Cottage designed for the Residence of an under Gardener. 



Fig. 88. is the elevation of a Cyclopean cottage, designed 

 by Mr. Wells, and erected under his direction, as a residence 

 for an under gardener. The term Cyclopean, as here used, 

 applies only to the lower part of the walls of the cottage, which 

 are formed of large irregular blocks of sandstone, without the 

 slightest indication of horizontal or vertical courses. The 

 effect, as contrasted with the numerous straight perpendicular 

 lines formed by the studwork in the upper part of the walls, 

 and with the horizontal lines of the tiling of the roof, is ex- 

 ceedingly good. The studwork is filled in with brickwork plas- 

 tered over ; the smoothness and finished appearance of which, 

 as contrasted with the rudeness of the Cyclopean part, pro- 

 duces a forcible, and at the same time pleasing, effect. A great 

 beauty in this cottage results from the horizontal division of 

 the main body of the roof; the upper part of which projects 



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