Inexpensive rural cottages and buildings for small holdings . oportion of themtvere hovels only Jit for jiigs to live in, and it is to be feared that the samecondition of things still obtains in many parts of the coimtry; and as regardsthe newer cottages, a great mauy of these do not fulfil the essential conditionsI have laid down. They possess living rooms—or what pass as such—badly lighted, possiblywith a door opening directly into the external air as well as tiro ov tlirce otherdoors in them communicating directly with the sculleries, larders, or stairs,thus rendering the principal room in
Inexpensive rural cottages and buildings for small holdings . oportion of themtvere hovels only Jit for jiigs to live in, and it is to be feared that the samecondition of things still obtains in many parts of the coimtry; and as regardsthe newer cottages, a great mauy of these do not fulfil the essential conditionsI have laid down. They possess living rooms—or what pass as such—badly lighted, possiblywith a door opening directly into the external air as well as tiro ov tlirce otherdoors in them communicating directly with the sculleries, larders, or stairs,thus rendering the principal room in the house draughty and both inconvenientand very uncomfortable. The sculleries are generally too small for the rougher work to be done inthem, or are so placed that to use them the occupants of the cottages mustgo into the open air, or if in them, in order to reach other parts of the housesmust first pass through the living rooms. The larders, if there are any, open Plate I. U u ? \-ou (/) r z O (0UQ. >-h ZO zzou 0) I- CJ I- U 0) q:o 5 J< D hj D m.
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