hall forms the means of access to the whole house,
and what with post and screen and fixed seats, has
but little room left for either furniture or—human
beings. One of his bedrooms is but 7 ft. by
9 ft., and his kitchen only 8 ft. 6 ins. by 8 ft. 6 ins.
In Hwr/zT plan, again, the kitchen is too small, and
the larder leading out of the hall is an unsatis-
factory arrangement.
It is true that the villager and the farm labourer
living in cottages are accustomed to step direct
from the open air into their living room, but a
week-end cottage has somewhat more sophisticated
inhabitants, and experience shows the necessity of
providing a second or vestibule door as a further
protection against the cold and the wind. W&v
fails to do this, and we would further remark that
his design shows one of those complicated and
therefore expensive roofs we have referred to above.
page 330, who also has no double door, and
who might well have made his scullery somewhat
smaller, and his coal-cellar and pantry rather larger,
has a pleasing and simple treatment, but need
hardly have provided a lavatory—an excellent thing
in itself, but a luxury in a cottage. The design
of page 329, is well packed together
under a simple roof, but we think his staircase
would be poorly lighted by the bull's - eye
window, and the two lights of the dormer. Most

of his lobby would be blocked by the bulkhead of
the upper flight of stairs. page 322,
sends a drawing which is distinctly one of the
most competent and spirited. He has evidently
conceived the thing as a whole, and has even
planned his tree, selected the motto for his sundial,
and christened his bedrooms the Rose and the
Shamrock. He sets aside an additional sum of
^goo for laying out his garden, which he does
very prettily, and for forming his pool; but hopes
to build the house proper, as shown, for ^goo.
This, we imagine, his price of 7^. would allow
him to do, thanks in great measure to the economy
he effects by the curb or Mansard-roof treatment.
We hope, however, that when he is fortunate
enough to be asked to build on this excellently
thought-out plan he will induce his client to let
him increase the size of the sitting-room by at least
18 ins. in each direction. &*/<?, page 323, will see,
we think, on closer examination, the difficulty of
getting into bedroom No. 1, on account of the low
start of the toof and the valley timber of the
porch gable. Again, the landing is represented
as only 2 ft. 6 ins. wide. page 326, sends
a design to which the rather thin drawing hardly
does justice. His elevation would look quite
different if the many rain-water pipes necessitated
by chopping the gutters into short lengths were


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