rough stone-work, with square dressings, properly coped. The floor ought to be at least 9 in. above the level of the ground, the surface of which should be inclined, to carry the water off when being cleaned: the height of the room 8 ft. If possible, the front should be to the south-east: for, if the rooms receive their light from the north, they will always be cold, having a damp cheerless effect; if from the west, they will be heated to such a degree by the afternoon sun, as to make the sleeping-room scarcely habitable during the three summer months.

Cow-shed, pigsties, fuel-house, &c., are supposed to be at a convenient distance, and of a size suited to the habits and wants of the tenant.

No. 2. (fig. 120.) contains a living-room (a), wash-house (b), lobby (c), sleeping-room (d), and pantry. (e) If another sleeping-room should be wanted, it may be added behind, or

by converting the wash-house into a bedroom, and the pantry and lobby into a wash-house, which should contain a copper, oven, &c. To be built with any materials that come handy, and coloured a good warm stone tint. The roof to be covered with old tiles, and the gables to have large boards, &c. Fuelhouse and other outhouses to be placed according to the nature of the ground.

No. 3. (fig. 121.), a larger cottage, containing a kitchen (a), back-kitchen (b), lobby (c), two bedrooms (dd), and pantry (e). May be built of timber-framing plastered, of the Pisa walling, of stone, or whatever is cheapest in the neighbourhood. The roof thatched with reeds or straw. Pigsties, &c., detached.

No. 4. (fig. 122.), a double cottage, built with stone or brick, and thatched with reeds. They each contain three rooms on the ground-floor, and two above. Living-room (a), washhouse (b), pantry (c), porch (d), tool-shed (e), and bedrooms (ff). The walls may be built hollow, of brickwork, in Silverlock's manner, as described in your Encyclopædia of Gardening, and also in this Magazine; or in brick in bed, 11 in. wide, with a vacuity between, as described in your own essay on Cottage Husbandry and Architecture, in the present Volume.

Cow-shed and out-buildings to be according to the wants of the occupiers.

ART. VII. Design for a small Green-house or Conservatory. By T. T.

Sir,

THINKING it not improbable that the enclosed particulars of a small green-house, or conservatory, might furnish some hints to such of your readers as may be desirous of adding that agreeable appendage to their residences at a reasonable expense, I shall make no apologies for forwarding them to you. There are many who forego this luxury on account of the usual cost of buildings of this kind, when they are ornamental enough to be attached to a house, and also large enough to contain a sufficient variety of plants to look gay throughout the major part of the year. Having found the one, of which I now send you a sketch (fig. 127.), to answer the latter purpose, with merely the assistance of two or three common two-light frames, I do not hesitate to recommend something similar, where the power may be wanting to erect the costly and magnificent building given in Vol. II. p. 170. of your Magazine. My humble one is within the scope of most persons: it was built and fitted up entirely by a common bricklayer and carpenter from an adjoining small village, and cost between 250l. and 2601. I do not here include the expense of heating it, both because the new method by hot water has superseded mine, and because the cockle which heats it warms, through a separate main flue, the lower rooms, passages, staircase, and entrance of my residence. It answers, however, the double purpose extremely well, and as far as it creates a constant flow of pure air from without, by introducing it through a large flue, has that advantage over any plan which only heats the air already in the green-house. I may also observe, that there is an advantage attached to the present plan, which may be a recommendation to such as may be occupying houses for only a limited period: all the roof-lights, side-lights, and doors, consisting of movable frames; and the only expensive articles, which are the lead-gutters, lead-ridges, and cast-iron pillars, being still valuable when the house may be dismantled; the loss upon removal could not be great.

Fig. 123. is the ground plan, of which a a a are three doors, each dividing in the middle; and, being hung upon Collinge's patent hinges, they are lifted on and off with the greatest ease. The letters bare so many Gothic lights, resembling the doors. (fig. 126.) The letters c are cast-iron pipes, conducting the rain-water from the roof-gutters into the drains (d d), which carry it into the tank (f). The letters e are beds containing soil of the quality best suited to their respective plants. The

tank (f) is 12 ft. by 10, and 64 ft. deep, arched over, and covered with a movable flag-stone at the mouth, supplying the pump (g), through the bottom of whose trough the waste water is again returned into the tank. m is a glass door opening into a library, and n a similar door opening into the drawing-room. Fig. 124. is a section of the main beam, 44 ft. long, extend

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ing through the centre of the building, and upon which the inner ribs and lights rest. The gutters, lined with lead (h), are cut out of the solid beam, and fall each way to the three hollow cast-iron pillars (c c c) standing over the centre drain. Fig. 125. is a cross section of the roof, where I

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are the rafters, on which the lights rest, exactly after the same manner as those of the common cucumber frame, with the addition of a slip of wood, 5 in. wide, extending from the ridge to the gutters along the rafters, to cover the outer wood-work of the lights, after they are returned to their places in September. Without this the rain water would find admission down the openings at the sides of the lights. This is essential to the dryness of the house; and if the two or three screws, with which they are fixed, are well greased, they are readily taken off from such lights as are removed for the summer. The three lead gutters (h h h) should be wide enough in the centre to admit of a person walking along it. c is one of the cast-iron pipes, a pillar 9 ft. long, supporting the beam, and having five small wooden shafts round it, to train climbing plants upon. The ventilating shutter (x) works upon two pivots, and is raised by a wooden rod, which also props it open.