This cottage is a grade beyond the one just described, both in
appearance and accommodation. It is 20x16 feet on the ground, with a
rear wing 26x8 feet in area. The main body is 10 feet high, to the roof,
vertically boarded and battened. A snug, half-open (or it may be closed,
as convenience may require,) porch shelters the front door, 5x4 feet in
area. The cottage has a square or hipped roof, of a 30deg pitch from a
horizontal line, which spreads full two feet over the walls and
bracketed beneath. The rear wing retreats two feet from the wall line of
the main building, and has also a hipped roof of the same pitch as the
main one, with eight-feet posts. The open end of the wing advances 6
feet toward the front of the main part for wood-house and storage. The
construction of this is in the same style as Design I. The windows are
plain, two-sashed, of six lights each, 8x12 glass in front, and 8x10 in
the rear.
[Illustration: COTTAGE. Pages 217-218.]
INTERIOR ARRANGEMENT.
The front door opens into a common living room, 16x12 feet, with two
windows, in which is a stove-chimney running up from the main floor next
the partition, or placed over it in the chamber, and running up through
the center of the roof. On one side of the living room is a bedroom,
10x8 feet, with two windows. Next to this bedroom is a large closet, 8x6
feet, with one window, and shelves, and tight cupboard within. These
rooms are 9 feet high, and over them is a chamber, or garret, 20x16
feet, entered by a swing step ladder, as in Design No. I. This garret is
lighted by a small dormer window in the rear roof, over the shed or
lean-to. A bed may be located in this chamber, or it may serve as a
storage and lumber-room.
The wing contains a small kitchen, in case the living room be not
occupied for that purpose, 10x8 feet, lighted by a side-window, and
having a small chimney in the rear wall. It may contain, also, a small
closet, 3 feet square. A door passes from this small kitchen into the
wood-house, which is 16x8 feet, or with its advance L, 14 feet, in the
extreme outer corner of which is a water-closet, 5x3 feet; thus,
altogether, giving accommodation to a family of five or six persons.
The construction of this cottage is shown as of wood. Other material,
either brick or stone, may be used, as most convenient, at a not much
increased cost. The expense of this building may be, say fifty per cent.
higher than that of No. I, according to the finish, and may be
sufficiently well done and painted complete for $300; which may be
reduced or increased, according to the style of finish and the taste of
the builder.
A cellar may be made under this cottage, which can be reached by a
trap-door from the living room, opening to a flight of steps below.
DESIGN III.
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