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KURAL ARCHITECTURE. 



showing a section of this mode of weather-boarding will best ex- 

 plain it to the reader. 



"We first pointed out this mode of covering, in our « Cottage 



Eesidences." A great 

 number of gentlemen 

 have since adopted it, 

 and all express them- 

 selves highly gratified 

 with it. It is by. far 

 the most expressive 

 and agreeable mode 

 of buildiijg in wood 

 for the-, country ; it is 

 stronger; equally'cheap 

 and much more dura- 

 ble than the thin sid. 

 ■ ingr ; and it has a cha- 

 racter, of strengffii and 

 permanence, which, to 

 our eye, narrow and 

 thin boards never can have. When filled in with cheap soft brick, 

 it also makes a very warm house. 



The rafters of these two cottages are stout joists, placed- two feet 

 apart, which are allowed to extend beyond the house two feet, to 

 answer the purpose of brackets, for the projecting ea-ves. Eig. S{ b, 

 will show,' at a gjance, the mode of rafter boarding and shingling 

 over these rafters, so as to form the simplest and best kind of 

 roof.* -^ 



The window dressings, which should have a bold and sinij)le 

 character, and made' by nailing on the weather boarding- stout 



* The simplest mode of forming an eave gutter on a projeoting roof like 

 this, is shown in the cut, fig. 3 at c. It consists merely of a tin trough, fast- 

 ened to the roof by its longer portion, which extends up under one layer 

 of shingles. Tliis lie? close upon the roof. The trough being directly over 

 the line of the outer facfe of the house, the leader d, which conveys away 

 the water, passes down in a sti-aight line, avoiding tlie angles necessary in 

 the common mode. 



Fig. 8. Cottage Siding and' Eoofing. 



