DESCRIPTIONS OF PLATES XLIII. AND XLIV.
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.