Ground Floor.
Drawing Room, 12 ft. 6 ins. × 13 ft. 6 ins., and bay. Dining Room, 13 ft. × 13 ft., and bay (French casements). Kitchen, 10 ft. × 11 ft. Scullery, 8 ft. × 10 ft. Larder. Porch and Hall, with Cloak Space under stairs. Coals, Tools, and w.c.
Bedroom Floor.
First Bedroom, 13 ft. 6 ins. × 15 ft. 9 ins. Second Bedroom, 11 ft. 6 ins. × 13 ft. Third Bedroom, 10 ft. × 13 ft. Dressing Room. Cupboards. Bathroom, with w.c. and Lavatory (hot and cold water).
As will be seen, there is very little space wasted in the planning of the rooms.
The whole of the exterior is rough-cast. The front bedroom is enlarged and projects over the ground floor, giving a pleasant shade to the lower portion of the elevation, while the roof is continued over one side and carried down to form the porch. The gable is of half-timber framing.
The roof is covered with Hartshill hand-made tiles, which, while richly toning and colouring, have admirably stood the test of several years’ hard weather, and have proved much more durable than the pressed tile used for some of the other cottages at Bournville.
The plan of the cottage might be simplified by gabling back and front, the roof thus covering the whole building, and having no valleys. The bedroom accommodation could be then increased by the addition of attics.
Two views of the actual example appear in Plates [xxxvii.] and [xxxviii.]
