Fig. 35. Plan of a Cottage with the same accommodations as the foregoing, but differently arranged, and with a veranda. The difference in the aspect of this cottage will be ascertained by observing the compass; the north and south line being in the direction of from left to right, whereas in plan fig. 30. it is from right to left. The entrance, therefore, is placed against the northeast front, in order that, by placing the door on one side of the porch, it may open to the south-east. An interior arrangement is shown, which we consider preferable to that of fig. 30., because the communication with the cellar, by means of the stair (a) in the lean-to and the direct entrance to the yard (b), is more convenient. The size of the cowhouse (c), though somewhat diminished, is still large enough for a small cow; the space (d) for ducks or geese, and for a ladder to the hen-house, is not quite so commodious as in the other plan; but on the whole, notwithstanding these drawbacks, we consider this plan as more conveniently arranged than the preceding one.

Exteriorly the platform is level as far as the steps to the porch (e), and thence it forms an inclined plane to the natural surface.

f, The veranda, which is supported by trunks of larch or spruce fir trees, with the bark on, will add much to the comfort and economical uses of this residence. It will serve every year for drying kidneybeans, and other beans and peas in the straw; for hanging up Indian corn or tobacco, or any sorts of garden seeds or garden herbs which the cottager may wish to dry. In wet seasons he may dry the whole of his wheat, barley, oats, or even hay there; the family washing may be suspended on lines, and dried there in all weathers; as well as various sorts of work performed with comfort, and children sent out to play during rain or snow

Fig. 36. The perspective elevation shows the bee-house, with pigeon-house over, and a place for a dog or for rabbits, entering from beneath the steps to the porch.

Figs. 37. to 40. A design for a cottage, with the same general accommodations as figs. 30. and 35.; but without a cellar floor, and with the addition of a bedroom floor.

The platform is the same as in the other plans, the inclined plane beginning at c, and continuing to the extremity of the outbuildings.

Fig. 38. shows the bedroom floor, in which the bedrooms a and b, over the back kitchen and dairy, are on a lower level than the bedrooms c and d, over the kitchen and parlour. The positions of the different beds, chests of drawers, and dressing-tables, in the different rooms, are indicated, and the vacuity in the exterior wall is shown as in the ground plan.

This design is more particularly calculated for low, moist, shady, or confined situations, where it might not be considered advisable to sleep on the ground floor; it is of course somewhat more expensive in execution than either of the two preceding plans, and not quite so well adapted as they for walls built in the pisé manner.

Fig. 39. Section on the lines A B in figs. 37, 38., showing the level of the open yard, a; passage from the back kitchen, b; sunk area under the stair to give head-room for attending the oven, c; oven, d; water-box over it on a level with the kitchen floor, e; flues for heating the kitchen, f; platform, g; natural surface, h; lower bed-room, i; larger loft over, k; closet, 1; situation of openings to the false flue for ventilation, mn; cornice for swallows, o o.

Fig. 40. Perspective elevation of figs. 37. to 39., in which are seen the bee-house with pigeon place over, and, on the left, the window to the cowhouse and the door to the yard.

No estimate is given of the expense of erecting these cottages, because that will vary exceedingly in different parts of the country. For 20 miles round London, the design figs. 30. to 34. would cost, according to the estimate of an eminent builder, upwards of 3007.; figs. 35. and 36. upwards of