Dimensions of Cottage.
1. It is 36 feet in front. Its cost about £70.
2. Each room is 16 feet square & 8 feet in height.
3. There are two Garrets, used for sleeping rooms.
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Apartments.
Nº 1 Is a necessary. 2 Coal, Wood & Peat House. 3 Scullery. 4 Larder. 5 Cowhouse. 6 Kitchen. 7 Sitting room. 8 & 9 are Garrets.
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Warming Apparatus.
Behind the fire place of No. 6, Kitchen, is an Iron box, one side of this Iron box, made of strong sheet or plate Iron, forms the back of the fire place of No. 6. As two plates of iron are rivetted together, leaving a space of 6 inches between the plates which forms a box, a passage or pipe below the door as seen in the Plan, opened through the wall. This pipe or passage made of stone or brick, or of iron, admits a current of cold air to pass into the Iron box. This air entering the box and being heated by the fire in No. 6, gives its warmth out to No. 7. By means of a pipe which ascends from the top of the Iron box the two garret rooms are warmed. Wet linen may be dried by placing a screen with it before the Iron box in room No. 7.