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Designs for Labourers Cottages

a group possessing true
cottage feeling, but a
lead flat and a V-gutter
are things to avoid as
far as possible. The
design sent by Pierrot
(page 67) has a very
engaging little perspec-
tive sketch, and a plan
showing considerable
ingenuity. Bedrooms
18 ft. long, two w.c.'s, and
a first-floor bath-room,
all, however, suggest
the middle - class villa,
rather than the working-
man's cottage. The plan,
sent by Tulip (page 63)
has taken into considera-

LABOURERS' COTTAGES (HON. MENTION : COMP. A LXIl) BY " CALIBAN" tion, which few of the

others have, that it is
necessary, or, at all events,

necessity. Dogrose (page 64) errs on the extra va- desirable for the occupant of the middle of
gant side in providing a special bath-room. His three cottages to reach his back garden or yard,
semi-circular gables and red-brick quoins would be as the case may be, without crossing that
a happy elevational feature, but we hardly approve of his next - door neighbour. It does not
of his huge stone slab below the chimney cap. indicate, by the bye, how it is proposed
This would collect wet and only increase the to light the staircases. The scullery is somewhat
difficulty always experienced in preventing it from difficult of access from the kitchen. Stem (page 65),
descending the shaft. The pretty little drawing shows a washhouse approached from the kitchen—
of Caliban (on this page) suggests very pleasantly never a very wise thing, as giving opportunity

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