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        EXPLANATION oF THE PLATES.
                              PLATE      I.
I  a Iketch for a Cottage of fimple form, the exterior enclofure of which
may
be of pife, clay, rubble-fIone, wood quarters, and brick pannelling; the
latter
lime whited, and the forMer wugh-caft-, or plaftered over; and the fi*2ce
Am-
velled, called peretto-work, which is very durable, and refifst the weather.
T
form of building. is well calculated to receive a roof of any fimple miteridk
fufficient to fupport thatch. The infide partitions may be of quartering,
having
a head and fill, and the quarters foiur bridks length apart, and  y be fci
Pad
as to receive the brick-pannelling flat or edgeways; either of which, when
neatly
done, may be lime whited: the floors paved with bricks laid flat, with or
without mortar: the chimney fhould be of brick or flone; the outfide doors
of
inch and quarter or inch and half deal ledged, rebated, and beaded;. the
doors
withinide three quarter deal ledged; the Witdows of Nevwealo. gkfs ini Lead,
with wood or iron casements; four or five bed-rooms isay be had if the roof,
the partitions of which may be made of board anti brace, that is, hf a board
wide, inch thick, and a board wide, halfar inch thick, pa ughed and tongd
together: the ceilings to be lathed and- plaftered: the chathier Byo' of
boards, one inch thick; a fkirting round each room, to defend the plaftering,
and the walls plaftered. This Cottage, done in the above manner, will amount
to about 150/.
                               PLATE II.'
   IS -a fketch for a Cottage: its exterior enlofure may be bult fi ilar
wih
Plate I.; it would be a very comfortable dwellin-g for a Farmer renting..
xnodoratte-flized farm; or a pe'on retiring with a fmall-ineomen Thefiniths
are confidered a degree better than the former, and it has an additional
ornament
of trellis-work round the entrance door and parlour window, compofed of a
flight
framing,. and common oak or fir laths to train the vine, honeyfuckle, or
jaf.
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