Plate XXVII. gives the plan and elevation of a pair of cottages also having similar accommodation to those with the long sloping roofs shown on Plate XX. The cost, however, is here considerably reduced by each house having a side entrance, and by the omission of the ingle nook, verandah and bay, while the living room, though smaller, is not a passage room. By approaching the stairs from the lobby, not only is more privacy secured, but the space beneath is made available in the kitchen for a “Cabinet” bath, which is so placed as to occupy it when in use instead of projecting into the kitchen. The planning is simple and square, which, with the omission of bays and the introduction of plain casements, all helps to reduce the cost. The accommodation is:— GROUND FLOOR. Living Room, 12 ft. 4 ins. × 16 ft. Kitchen, 10 ft. 3 ins. × 11 ft. 6 ins. Lobby. Larder, W.C. and Coals. BEDROOM FLOOR. First Bedroom, 12 ft. 4 ins. × 16 ft. Second Bedroom, 7 ft. 8 ins. × 11 ft. 6 ins. Third Bedroom, 8 ft. × 8 ft. 3 ins. Linen Closet. Total cost, including all extras, £250 per cottage. Laying out of gardens, £10 each. Cubical contents, 24,000 ft., at _5d._ per foot cube, £500, or £250 per cottage. PLATE XXVIII. PAIR OF COTTAGES. [Illustration: FRONT ELEVATION GROUND PLAN BEDROOM PLAN PLATE XXVIII. PAIR OF COTTAGES. SEE PAGE 34.] This plate shows the plan and elevation of a pair of cottages having the parlour in addition to the living room and scullery. The living room, which should always be the larger, is here the full width of the house. The measurements are:— GROUND FLOOR. Living Room, 11 ft. 5 ins. × 16 ft. 6 ins. Parlour, 11 ft. 4 ins. × 13 ft. 3 ins. Scullery, Outside Larder, W.C. and Coals. BEDROOM FLOOR. First Bedroom, 11 ft. 4 ins. × 13 ft. 3 ins. Second Bedroom, 8 ft. 6 ins. × 11 ft. 5 ins. Third Bedroom, 7 ft. 8 ins. × 8 ft. 6 ins. Linen Closet. Total cost, including all extras, £230 per cottage. Cubical contents, 33,918 ft. at _3¼d._ per ft. cube. £460, or £230 each. (Built in 1899.) The stairs in this instance descend to the entrance lobby, but they may be planned the other way about in order to avoid the necessity of traversing the parlour to get to the bedrooms, and to insure children crying upstairs being heard in the living room or the scullery. This, however, would necessitate the cutting of 3 ft. off the large front bedroom, while the respective spaces for the larder and the lobby below would be reversed, the position of the former being undesirable. Ordinary roofing tiles and common bricks have been used. The living room is boarded, and the scullery quarried. It might be pointed out that there is but little scope for variety of plan in these smaller cottages. The variations must be obtained in the treatment of elevations. As already stated, to build cheaply the main point is to get the walls as long and straight as possible.