This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1854 Excerpt: …the privy, fuel, and dust house are at a a. Plate XV. Plan of the upper story. Plate XVI. Elevation. Plate XVII. Longitudinal Section. These cottages are intended for the better sort of mechanics, oremen, farm bailiffs, &c, and would be well adapted for mall retired tradesmen. Plate XVIII. A ground plan of two houses forming partq a street, suitable to a country town, or village, or the outskirts of a large town. Each house contains on the ground floor, a kitchen or wash-house, in which are the stairs to the upper floor, (under them boxes for fuel and dust, ) and a living-room. Plate XIX. Plan of the upper story, consisting of three bed-rooms and a water-closet. Plate XX. Elevation. Plate XXI. Longitudinal Section. Plate XXII. Entrance doorway, window and chimney-pot, to a larger scale. The idea of placing the entrance doors alternately, so that a street or court runs on either side of the houses, was suggested by Mr. Weale. It has the advantage of saving much space in confined localities, is more open to the air, and less crowded than the common plan. The entrance door being placed as shown on the plan, opening into the kitchen, leaves the livingroom free and quiet. Plate XXIII. A ground plan (the upper stories being similar) of a double lodging-house, for towns and localities where ground is valuable, for poor families, each consisting of a man and his wife, with one or two children. The staircase is common to both houses, thereby saving room and expense. Each domicile is quite distinct, and shut off from the rest; and consists of a living-room with a fire-place and two dwarf cupboards, a bed-room, a small passage, in which is a sink, and out of which a water-closet, a large box for fuel, and a dust shaft, from the uppermost story of the house to a com…