The model village and its cottages

by William Alexander Harvey

FRONT ELEVATION
ATTIC PLAN

Plates [xlv.] and [xlvi.] give plans, and Plate [xlvii.] the view of a pair of three-storey cottages of about the same accommodation, the left-hand having the following:—

Ground Floor.

Dining Room, 11 ft. 6 ins. × 18 ft., with French window. Drawing Room, 12 ft. 6 ins. × 15 ft., with deep bay. Small Sitting Room, 7 ft. × 11 ft. 2 ins. Working Kitchen, 11 ft. 2 in. × 12 ft. 6 ins. Larder and China Pantry, Porch and Hall. w.c., Coals, Tools, and Enclosed Yard.

Bedroom Floor.

First Bedroom, 12 ft. 6 ins. × 15 ft., and deep bay. Second Bedroom, 11 ft. 6 ins. × 16 ft. Third Bedroom, 10 ft. 6 ins. × 11 ft. 2 ins., with oriel. Bathroom, with Lavatory, w.c. Two Attics and Large Box Room.

PLATE XLVII.
PAIR OF COTTAGES.
SEE PAGE [47].

The accommodation in the two houses differs owing to the aspect. If the two plans were identical, a considerable portion of the right-hand garden would be shut off from the south, and the larder would not face the north. Stress has already been laid on the necessity of considering aspect.

The left-hand is a corner house, and the projecting out-houses answer the double purpose of screening the garden from the road and protecting the house from the north wind.