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THE COTTAGE GARDENER AND COUNTRY GENTLEMAN, FiTBBPABY 8, 1859. 
RURAL DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURE. _ 
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Dksiqn fou a Cltikotman’s House. 
It has been too often a cause of complaint against our country- 
houses and villas, that they mar the beauty of the landscape, 
instead of adding to it; and the reply usually made to such com¬ 
plaints, by those who build them, is, that they prefer spending the 
money in providing for interior comforts, rather than on external 
features of decoration. 
This would be a valid objection, if it necessarily followed, that 
a building, to be cheap, must be ugly. But such a notion is a 
mistaken one ; and the object of this design is to show, that, by a 
judicious arrangement of the commonest materials, a picturesque 
effect may be produced with little or no additional cost, and 
without interfering, in the slightest degree, with the interior 
comforts and conveniences of the building. The house is supposed 
to be erected of bricks, either red or white, according to the j 
locality, with different coloured bricks introduced in the arches 
over the windows and bands, as may be seen by referring to the 
drawing. 
Supposing the house to stand at a little distance from the road, 
with a carriage drive up to it, you enter by a lean-to porch (a) • 
into a lobby (b) five feet wide. On either side of this is the drawing- j 
room (c), with a bay window looking over the lawn, thirteen | 
feet by fifteen feet, exclusive of the bay ; and the dining-room 
(d) , thirteen feet by seventeen feet, with its window looking 
towards the road. Beyond the lobby is the staircase, and a good 
hall (f), ten feet by thirteen feet, lighted by a Gothic-headed 
window ; and opening from this is the study, or breakfast-room 
(e) , thirteen feet by eleven feet, with its window looking over the 
lawn, ii is the kitchen, thirteen feet by thirteen feet, separated 
from the rest of the house by the small lobby (o), from which 
there is also a door leading to the garden, i is the scullery, ten 
feet by ten feet. K is the larder, or it might be used for a wine 
cellar, and the lobby between it and the kitchen would hold a 
beer-cask, l is the pantry, opening out of the kitchen, which, 
with (m) the coal-shed, (>') the knife-house, and (o) an open 
shed for wood, &c., enclose the yard from the rest of the 
premises. 
The first floor contains four bedrooms, and a dressing-room, 
which might be converted into a small bedroom. 
Such a house as this might be built, in a locality where bricks 
are abundant, for U700, at the most, and would be very suitable for 
a clergyman, or gentleman, with a small establishment.—C iiakles 
Luck, Architect , 16, tEe.iex Street , Strand, 
