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Buildings for Small Holders. 



[Aug., 



holdings, and a third holding may ultimately come into the 

 scheme. 



The general lay-out of the farmstead is shown in Fig. 1, and 

 its proposed adaptation and sub-division in Fig. 2. A common 

 road through the farmyard makes separate entrance to each of 

 the yards possible (compare Figs. 1 and 2). Owing to the differ- 

 ence of level it is difficult to depart very drastically from the old 

 means of approach to the farm buildings, but these have been 

 improved and made good. 



The house, a red brick Georgian farm house with remains of 

 an older building, has been divided into accommodation for two 

 families. The third cottage will be built later. As a result of 

 the adaptation each house will contain 4 bedrooms, living room, 

 parlour, wash-house and dairy, with a third of the farm buildings. 



Fig. 8 shows a plan of the ground floor (of the house) before 

 adaptation, and Fig. 5 the manner in which the rearrangemxent 

 and alteration of the various rooms have been carried out. 



Fig. 4 shows the first floor before adaptation. It will be seen 

 that a large amount of useful space is wasted in landings and 

 corridors. By rearranging the northern staircase, access is 

 obtained to the bedrooms without passing through the living 

 room of house No. 3, and by removing the corridor, a small bed- 

 room in house No. 3 is enlarged to a useful size, and a box-room 

 in house No. 2 is converted into a bedroom (compare Figs. 4, 5 

 and 6). 



Fig. 7 shows the progress of the work of alteration. The cost 

 of this adaptation will be about ^£500, the work on farm buildings 

 will cost another ^500, and the new cottage ^1,000. At a cost 

 of £2,000, therefore, three holdings will have been equipped, 

 and a good deal more accommodation provided for the money 

 expended than would have been possible if entirely new buildings 

 had been erected. 



Wherever possible, an absolute division of the holdings has 

 been aimed at. Small holdings should not overlap, or small 

 holders trespass upon the land of their neighbours. This point 

 should at all times be taken into account, in the interests of the 

 harmonious working of the settlement. In the case illustrated, 

 entirely separate approaches have been provided to each set of 

 farm buildings, and each farmstead stands on its own land. 



On some farmsteads a common dairy may be provided when 

 small holders propose working together on a co-operative system. 

 This has not been done in the case here mentioned, as each of 

 the small holders is farming differently. 



