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Old English Garden Plots.
Garden Fountain in Ruins.
DESIGN No. 1. A GARDENER’S COTTAGE.
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Front elevation.
Back elevation.
SOME examples of designs for small cottages will be first given in this volume. There are few domestic
Ground-floor plan.
Plan of upper floor.
structures that have received within the last fifty years a greater share of attention than the English Cottage, especially that designed for the occupation of the labourer. Each detail has received much care; thus, whether its walls should be solid or formed in two thicknesses, as most conducive to warmth and comfort; whether they should be of thin brick or of solid thick concrete; the best kind of roof covering, and indeed all such questions, have been fully discussed.
Section through length of building.
Besides this, the calculation of cost has been of importance; they are required to return a rent that will pay 5 per cent. on the outlay, and to gain their picturesque appearance has generally been sacrificed.
The cottage examples in this volume have been erected on estates where the only aim was to render them substantial and lasting structures, expense being a matter of minor importance. Their picturesque appearance being in every case insisted on.