DESCRIPTIONS OF PLATES XXXIX.-XLII.
Another single cottage has accommodation as follows:—
Ground Floor.
Living Room, including roomy alcove, 13 ft. 5 ins. × 15 ft. 6 ins. Kitchen, 10 ft. × 13 ft. 5 ins. Scullery, Larder, Tools, w.c., Coals, and Enclosed Yard.
Bedroom Floor.
First Bedroom, 13 ft. 5 ins. × 15 ft. 6 ins. Second Bedroom, 10 ft. × 13 ft. 5 ins. Third Bedroom, 9 ft. 6 ins. × 9 ft. 6 ins. Bathroom (hot and cold water) and w.c.
Spacious Attic (shown by dotted lines) and Boxrooms.
Total cost, in 1903, £540.
Cubical contents, 19,938 ft., at 6½d. per ft. cube, £540.
By hanging a curtain, the alcove shown in the plan may be made private for writing or studying, if required. It may also be used for meals; and if a door communicates with the hall, the table may be laid by the maid unseen by the visitor, and the curtains afterwards drawn apart. Thus one of the disadvantages urged against the larger-sized houses with one large living room may be overcome.
Materials.—The cottage is built of whitewashed common bricks, with tarred plinth, the roof being covered with Peake’s dark brindled hand-made roofing tiles. It is without decoration, apart from what is afforded by the semicircular hood over the front door, the wrought-iron brackets supporting the gutters, and at the back a semicircular arch to give importance to the living room. There are shutters to all the ground floor windows, which are made to bolt from within.
The view shown in Plate xl. is of the back.
Plates xli. and xlii. show the staircase and dining room respectively.