From the above estimate the following items should be deducted, as appertaining to the present objectionable system:—
| £. | s. | d. | ||
| Cesspool | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
| Root of privy and ceiling | 0 | 15 | 0 | |
| Drain, say 65 ft. | 3 | 5 | 0 | |
| Water butt and stand | 1 | 5 | 0 | |
| Service pipe, 40 ft. | 2 | 0 | 0 | |
| Cock and ball—8s.; waste pipe—7s. | 0 | 15 | 0 | |
| 9 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Less 7½ per cent. | 0 | 13 | 6 | |
| 8 | 6 | 6 | ||
| 13 | 8 | 6 | ||
8.—Description or Specification of Mr. Loudon’s Agriculturist Model Cottage.
The plan and elevation which I have given are intended for an Agricultural labourer in the north of England or in Scotland, where it is customary to have the sleeping room on the ground floor. The walls are supposed to be 18 inches thick, and the roof thatched, as being the warmest covering in a cold bleak country. The front entrance is by a porch, which contains a step-ladder to the garrets, which, being lighted by windows in the gable ends, may be used as sleeping places for grown-up children, while the younger children may sleep below in the same room with their parents. a, is the kitchen; b, the sleeping room; c, the back kitchen; d, the pantry; e, the dairy, if the occupant should have a cow, which is generally the case with agricultural labourers in Scotland; and f, a place for fuel, for poultry, or for a furnace to heat a flue passing under the floors of the two rooms in the direction of the dotted line g, the smoke escaping by the upright flue h. The highest point of the sleeping-room floor is at g, and of the kitchen floor at i; the highest point of the pantry floor is at d, and of the dairy floor at e, and from these four points the floors gradually slope at the rate of 1 inch to 7 feet to the sill of the back kitchen door at m, so that no water can stand in any part of these floors; and hence, when they are being washed with a mop in the direction of the slope the water will readily flow towards the back door.
A place for wood or other fuel, or for a pig or rabbits, according to the taste or circumstances of the occupant, is shown at n; a privy at o; a tank for liquid manure, communicating with the privy, at p; and a pit for ashes and solid manure at q. Both these pits may have movable roofs.
The surface of the yard slopes from the entrance door r, to the liquid manure tank s. The back kitchen is entered by one step; the terrace in front at t is entered by three steps, and the door of the porch by a half-step.
The garden is only partially shown, the portion omitted being a parallelogram of sufficient length to constitute the contents of the whole ground allotted to the cottage, one-sixth of an acre. It is surrounded by a hedge, which may be shown architecturally to give an appearance of design and taste on the part of the occupant.
The slope of the terrace may be covered with grass or flowers, strawberries or ivy. The narrow border next the hedge may be planted with flowers, and the larger compartments in front of the porch with gooseberries, raspberries, currants, and dwarf apples. The culinary crops are supposed to be grown in the back compartment, only a portion of which is shown at w.
A B, is the elevation of the front hedge.
C D, a part of the side hedge.