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labourers’ dwellings. 
RURAL AFFAIRS. 
ARTICLE XI.—A DESIGN FOR FOUR LABOURERS’ DWELLINGS 
UNITED, 
With a few Remarks on the Stale of the British Peasantry . 
BY TIIE BRICKLAYER’S LABOURER. 
To contribute my humble mite in any way that may tend to the 
melioration of my fellow labourers, has always afforded me the great¬ 
est gratification; and although the subject of the following remarks 
has been often advocated before in the most masterly and able man¬ 
ner, so as to leave me nothing new to say, yet, I trust, that the few 
observations which I am now about to make, together with the ac¬ 
companying designs, (Figs. 24 & 25) may now prove acceptable to 
your readers; and that, however insignificant the fountain whence they 
flow, they may mingle their tributary stream with those from richer 
and more abundant sources. 
It is by continually impressing upon the landowners the necessity 
of their union and sympathy with their tenantry that we can hope 
for success; and the present design is humbly submitted to their 
notice, in the anxious hope that it will be adopted by some benevolent 
landlord, whose wealth has not led him to forget that his depend¬ 
ants have nearly the same wants—the same feelings—that they are 
susceptible of experiencing the same inconveniences, and indeed, are 
of the same species as himself. 
The design comprises a union of four dwellings, for agricultural 
labourers. Each house has the accomodation of a porch, (Fig. 24.) 
[1, a] to shelter the entrance; which is very desirable both in large 
and small houses; ( b ) is the lobby in which there is a shelf ( c ) for 
holding water pitchers, &c., and over this there may be another 
wooden shelf for holding a number of necessary small articles, while 
underneath the first mentioned shelf may be placed the smaller sized 
garden implements. In the kitchen ( d ) there is a low cupboard on 
one side of the fire-place, the top of which is to serve as a shelf for 
holding plates and tea things; and indeed there may be three shelves 
over this for holding necessary stone ware and fancy crockery; and 
to have, as I have occasionally seen in the north of England, a neat 
curtain tastefully tucked up at the top, to be let down in cases of 
cleaning or dusting. The boiler for heating water for washing, &c., 
is shewn in the kitchen, to save the expense of an additional flue and 
chimney stalk. Under the stairs there is a closet (c) for holding a 
small supply of fuel from the woodhouse. The back house, or back 
