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comes much cheaper, and takes up less room than a passage with 
a brick partition (see plan No. 6). It forms no part of my plan 
at present to treat of the construction of those ornamental cottages 
in the shape of lodges or appurtenances to the family residence, 
upon which generally taste and expense are abundantly bestowed, 
but on the homelier dwellings of the farm-labourer, in the erection 
of which the great and most important object is to obtain the 
largest amount of comfort and accommodation at the smallest cost 
that is consistent with strength and durability in the building. 
Where many such dwellings are required, it will be prudent to 
build them of different sizes, for the accommodaticm of families 
more or less numerous ; as the house which would be barely 
sufficient where there is a large family of children differing in 
age and sex would be in great measure wasted upon a widow or a 
married couple without children and with little furniture. This 
plan has been adopted by Earl Grey in building cottages on the 
estate of Howick, as are represented in plan No. 5. A consider- 
able addition to the expense of these cottages above what was 
absolutely necessary has been made for the sake of appearance. 
I do not, therefore, refer to them so much with a view to their 
cheapness, as each of the smaller of them cost 6IZ. 10s. in mate- 
rials and building, exclusive of cartage, as to show their neat ap- 
pearance, and the plan upon which they are constructed. A 
garden is appropriated to each cottage, as is common throughout 
this county. 
Plan No. 6 shows the plan of cottages which have been lately 
erected on the northern estates of the Greenwich Hospital under 
my care, and which affords the largest amount of accommodation 
at the smallest ^expense of any plan which I have been able to 
devise. If it is objected to as being on too large a scale, the 
same arrangement may still be adopted although the size may be 
abridged. But when it is remembered that the farm-servants or 
hinds of this country have each a cow, a garden, and a fatting-pig, 
requiring some room in the house for milk and utensils, and also 
that a very small saving of outlay at first may create perpetual in- 
convenience to the inhabitants, I think it will not be deemed ex- 
travagant. These houses are strongly built of freestone from a 
quarry on the estate. The walls are of common work, 2 feet 
thick ; the coigns, window and door frames, dressed and jointed. 
The timber of the roofs, doors, and windows is of the best Memel 
wood ; the inside doors and shelves are of American deal ; and 
the upper flooring is of deals, planed and tongued by the patent 
mill. The ground-floors are of Aberdeen flags. The roots are 
of the best Welch slate, and all the wood- work has had three 
coats of paint, the omission of which in new buildings is a great 
oversight. Each house is provided with a fire-range, consisting of 
