DESCRIPTIONS OF PLATES XLIII. AND XLIV.
PLATES XLIII. AND XLIV.
SINGLE COTTAGE.
Plates xliii. and xliv. show the plan and view respectively of another type of single cottage, with the following accommodation:—
Ground Floor.
Dining Room, 13 ft. × 19 ft., and small alcove. Drawing Room, 13 ft. × 16 ft. 6 ins., and bay. Kitchen, 9 ft. 6 ins. × 15 ft.
Scullery, 8 ft. 6 ins. × 9 ft. 4 ins. Larder, Coals, Ashes, w.c., and Enclosed Yard.
Bedroom Floor.
First Bedroom, 13 ft. × 13 ft. 4 ins. Second Bedroom, 12 ft. × 13 ft., and large bay. Third Bedroom, 9 ft. 6 ins. × 12 ft. Fourth Bedroom, 8 ft. 6 ins. × 13 ft. 4 ins. Bathroom, with Lavatory and w.c. Large Attic, extending over almost the whole of the four rooms.
Total cost, in 1904, £640. Cubical contents, 25,077 ft. at 6⅛d. per ft. cube = £640.
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.