Total cost, in 1904, £640. Cubical contents, 25,077 ft. at 6⅛_d._ per ft. cube = £640. [Illustration: PLATE XLIV. SINGLE COTTAGE. SEE PAGE 46.] By the arrangement of the stairs it will be noticed that additional space is secured to the dining room, forming a pleasant arched alcove. MATERIALS.—The materials used are brindled bricks, Peake’s hand-made roofing tiles, hips and ridges covered with half-round ridge-tiles, 6 in. half-round spouts with ornamental stays, projecting hood of timber, covered with lead and supported by two wrought-iron stays, red tall-boy chimney pots, doors painted Suffield green, window sashes and frames ivory white, and eaves, gutters and down-spouts lead colour. PLATES XLV., XLVI., AND XLVII. PAIR OF THREE-STOREY COTTAGES. [Illustration: BEDROOM PLAN GROUND PLAN PLATE XLV. PAIR OF COTTAGES. SEE PAGE 47.] [Illustration: FRONT ELEVATION ATTIC PLAN PLATE XLVI. PAIR OF COTTAGES. SEE PAGE 47.] Plates XLV. and XLVI. give plans, and Plate XLVII. the view of a pair of three-storey cottages of about the same accommodation, the left-hand having the following:— GROUND FLOOR. Dining Room, 11 ft. 6 ins. × 18 ft., with French window. Drawing Room, 12 ft. 6 ins. × 15 ft., with deep bay. Small Sitting Room, 7 ft. × 11 ft. 2 ins. Working Kitchen, 11 ft. 2 in. × 12 ft. 6 ins. Larder and China Pantry, Porch and Hall. W.C., Coals, Tools, and Enclosed Yard. BEDROOM FLOOR. First Bedroom, 12 ft. 6 ins. × 15 ft., and deep bay. Second Bedroom, 11 ft. 6 ins. × 16 ft. Third Bedroom, 10 ft. 6 ins. × 11 ft. 2 ins., with oriel. Bathroom, with Lavatory, W.C. Two Attics and Large Box Room. [Illustration: PLATE XLVII. PAIR OF COTTAGES. SEE PAGE 47.] The accommodation in the two houses differs owing to the aspect. If the two plans were identical, a considerable portion of the right-hand garden would be shut off from the south, and the larder would not face the north. Stress has already been laid on the necessity of considering aspect. The left-hand is a corner house, and the projecting out-houses answer the double purpose of screening the garden from the road and protecting the house from the north wind. In the adjoining house there is no small sitting room, but an extra attic. The outbuildings are attached to the main building, and do not project into the garden; the principal room is thus left open to the south. MATERIALS.—The houses are built of common bricks whitewashed, with a tarred plinth. There are half-timber porches, and the spaces between the bays and under the dormers are covered with rough-cast and decorated with parquetry. The rainwater head in front is picked out in vermillion, the introduction of a very little bright colour giving a pleasant jewel-like effect. Peake’s hand-made tiles, of dark colour, are used for the roofs, with half-round ridging, and ornamental iron stays support the gutters, which are of 6 in. half-round iron.