. British husbandry; exhibiting the farming practice in various parts of the United Kingdom. Agriculture -- Great Britain; cbk. IG THE COTTAGER'S MANUAL. [Ch. II. Chaitek II. ON COTTAGE ARCHITECTURE. A Model Cottage for a Country Labourer. Figs. 2 to 12 —We propose that, in all cases, cottag-es should stand on platforms of earth raised from 2 to 4 ft. above the natm'al surface ; that they should contain at least a kitchen, back-kitchen, or wash-house, parlour, bed- room for the man and wife, one for g"irls, and one for boys. These accommo- dations may either be arranged on one floor, as i
. British husbandry; exhibiting the farming practice in various parts of the United Kingdom. Agriculture -- Great Britain; cbk. IG THE COTTAGER'S MANUAL. [Ch. II. Chaitek II. ON COTTAGE ARCHITECTURE. A Model Cottage for a Country Labourer. Figs. 2 to 12 —We propose that, in all cases, cottag-es should stand on platforms of earth raised from 2 to 4 ft. above the natm'al surface ; that they should contain at least a kitchen, back-kitchen, or wash-house, parlour, bed- room for the man and wife, one for g"irls, and one for boys. These accommo- dations may either be arranged on one floor, as in fig. 2, or on two floors, as in Jig. 10. The offices or outdoor aj)pendages we propose, in either case, to be a cow-house, wood-house, tool-house, pigsty, dungpit, fagot-shed, and tanks for liquid manure. The external form of the plan of the house we propose in all cases to be the square, as containing the greatest accommodation with the least quantity of walling-, and as best calculated for accumulating and re- taining- heat. We would place this square so as that a south and north line would form its diagonal, or nearly so; by which means the four sides of the walls and roof would receive the sun's rays every day in the year. We would always, if jjossible, place the out-offices on the north-west side of the square, and the entrance on the south-east side; but the entrance, by means of a porch, and by placing- the door of the porch on either of the sides or the front, according- to circumstances, maybe made from any side, so as to accord with the road or street, or other houses to which the cot- tag-e may be considered as belonging-, exactly the same internal accom- modations being- retained; the out-offices also may be placed on any side at pleasure. The dairy should always be placed on the north-west or north- east side. The mateiials of the walls of this cottage we have shown in the j>Uui as brick, and the walls themselves as built with a hollow space in the centre of
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