GARDENERS' HOUSES. 



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desk, presses, drawers, &c. ; h ground- 

 floor water-closet ; i fuel store ; h ash- 

 hole. The entrance to the servants' 

 bedroom is placed under the stairs, 

 from whence, also, a stair descends to 

 the cellars under the family room and 

 parlour. 



Chamber-floor — I best bedroom, 1 8 

 feet by 14 feet, with one wall-closet ; m 



Fig. 680. 



up-stairs sitting-room, 18 feet by 14 feet, 

 with one wall-closet ; n bedroom for the 

 female branches of the family, 12 feet by 

 13 feet ; o family bedroom, 12 feet by 13 

 feet ; p chamber-floor water-closet and 

 bath ; q linen-closet ; r bedroom for the 

 male branches of the family, 12 feet by 

 1 1 feet j s closet off best bed-room. 

 The general arrangement of such a 



house will readily be understood by our 

 figure. It is necessary, however, to show 

 how the bath and closet are supplied with 

 water, &c. In the space between the roof 

 of the house and the ceiling of the up- 

 stair rooms, and immediately over the 

 bath, two cisterns, 3 feet square, and the 

 same in depth, should be placed close 

 together, and a communication formed 

 between them by 

 a 2-inch pipe, with 

 stopcock. These are 

 to be supplied with 

 cold water by a 

 force-pump t in the 

 kitchen, which also 

 supplies the boiler 

 behind and form- 

 ing the back of the 

 kitchen range, which 

 boiler, if close- 

 topped, will supply 

 one of the cisterns 

 above the bath with 

 hot water, by means 

 of a flow-and-return 

 leaden pipe, 2 inches 

 in diameter, pro- 

 ceeding from it up 

 the chimney, and 

 brought along the 

 ceiling joists to the 

 cistern. Stopcocks 

 should be placed 

 on these pipes 

 close to the boiler, 

 so that the circula- 

 tion may be shut 

 off when the hot 

 water is not required 

 for the bath. We 

 have exemplified a 

 still more simple 

 method of procuring 

 a supply of hot water, 

 by placing a small 

 cast-iron boiler, fig. 

 681, behind the fire- 

 place of an adjoining bedroom, such as I in 

 our figure, and forming the back and sides 

 of the grate. From the top of this a three- 

 quarter inch leaden pipe rises and passes 

 up the chimney till it reaches the height of 

 the floor of the garret, where it passes 

 through the wall, and extends to the cis- 

 tern. The pipe is wound round with 

 hay-bands, to prevent the escape of heat. 



