The American Cottage Builder Author:John Bullock Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER Y. THE FARM COTTAGE. The Main Body of this cottage is in the form of a paralellogram, 34 feet long, including the portico, and ;J2 feet wide, havin... more »g 14-foot posts, 2 feet of which extends above the attic floor, sustaining a roof of a 16-foot pitch with the gable end facing the south or south-west. The back part of the house, which extends to the kitchen, is 18 by 23 feet, including the veranda, with 10-foot posts, supporting a roof of a llj-foot pitch, with the gable towards the north or north-east. The kitchen is 12 by 23 feet, including the passage to the vault, with 6-foot posts, and a lean-to roof, having a 4-foot pitch. The whole building is designed to be elevated on a terrace of mason work, 3 feet above the common level of the ground, to be built of wood, with the outer walls to be lined with bricks. The roofs, also, are designed to be built of wood, covered either with common shingles, or water-proof cement. On the centre of the main body of the house, a false chimuey-top is shown, which may be formed of metal, bricks or artificial stone, for receiving the stove pipes from the rooms below. Those who prefer fire-places to furnaces or stoves, can erect a chimuey at each side of the cottage, extending their tops about 16 feet above the eaves. Between the dining-room and kitchen, there is a chimuey designed to communicate with the cooking range and stoves in those parts of the house. This house is designed to be entered from the front gate through a portico, 6 feet wide, extending across the whole width of the house. The entry of the kitchen and diningroom, is also designed to be passed into on the easterly side of the back part of the building, through a veranda 3 feet wide. The windows are all designed to be of good dimensions, and protected by w...« less