Studio: international art (6.1896)

An Artistic Treatment of Cottages

FIG. 5.—COTTAGE TREATMENT BY C. HARRISON TOWNSEND, F.R.I.B.A.

staircase, and two rooms over these. At the good number to arrange for, though just as often four

back of the kitchen {i.e., the right-hand room) was will suffice arranged as this : family two, week-end

a scullery. The alterations turn the old parlour visitor one, servant one; for in the simple homely

or sitting-room into a small hall or " house place," life these little country resting-places subserve, one

and the additions take the form of a drawing- factotum servant does.

room (so to call what ought to be termed a The walls are covered either with hanging tiles,

parlour) approached from this latter, and a kitchen rough plaster, or weather boarding. The gable in

and scullery combined, an arrangement that has Fig. 1, by the way, is actually weather-boarded,

advantages, such as the bestowal of more air and a not half timbered as shown in the sketch. Such

feeling of greater spaciousness, over the usual plan alterations as these should not cost more than

of keeping them distinct. Five bedrooms are now ,£250 or so. When to this is added the cost of

obtained on the upper floor. This is found to be a the land at such low prices as now prevail in the

FIG. 6. — PLAN OF COTTAGE (FIG. 5)

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