The plan (fig. 89.) contains a porch, a; kitchen, b; parlour, c; light closet, d; pantry, e; a staircase, f, to two good bedrooms above, and to a cellar under the parlour below; also an open shed, g, for fuel. A privy for women and children is shown at h, and one for men at i; the former being conveniently and privately entered from the wood-shed. The oven in the kitchen is shown large, to suit the description of fuel in general use by cottagers in Kent, viz. faggot-wood. We have shown, in Vol. VI. p. 143., how this fuel may be grown by every cottager for himself; and also how, by placing the oven in a cellar under the sitting-room, the waste heat might traverse under the kitchen floor in brick flues, and thus warm the whole house. The roof is covered with plain tiles; but, if this building were imitated in America, or in any country where wood is substituted for tiles, it would be found, from the high pitch of the roof, particularly well adapted for shingles. Where stone was not plentiful, the lower part of the walls might be of brick or mud, ona foundation of brickwork or masonry; or of common brickwork or stone covered with cement, and blocked out into Cyclopean forms. These two cottages were not only designed by Mr. Wells, but executed under his direction from his own working-drawings, and wholly from materials found on the estate; excellent sandstone rock, clay for bricks, and oak timber, being abundant, and chalk for burning into lime near at hand. In the house at Redleaf there is an excellent collection of pictures, chiefly by living artists, and including some of the best productions of Wilkie and the Landseers; Mr. Wells being one of the greatest encouragers of living native talent.
