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COTTAGE HABITATIONS. 77
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occasionally join ad in these visits . By these means -we were made our acquainted employ with . Having the wants 1 had and such necessities opportunit of y of the observing various families 1 the great in
inconvenience _arising from small dwellings where the families are large , both as regards bed-rooms and living-roonis , few cottages
having more than two bed-rooms ; and where there were children and young persons of both sexes , the indelicacy of this arrangement was
apparent ; we therefore concluded to build larger cottages , and make them with three bed-rooms in each . These houses were
sought after with the greatest avidity , and families allowed to remove to them as an especial favor . The increase of rent of one
shilling to one shilling and sixpence per week was a small consideration in regard to the additional comfort afforded to a family ,
where the income was from twenty-four to fifty or sixty shillings per week , as is frequently the case with families employed in
manufactories . We have therefore continued to enlarge the size of our . _eottag-es till we have almost _eyeTy rent charge from three to thirteen
pounds a year . " * ' * S _|) eeineation of tlie works in . four descriptions of cottages erected at
Egerton , for Messrs . Henry and Edmund Ashworth . reg Masonry ular courses . —The , well front hammer and - back dressed walls . The and inside the chimney walls , _galbles shafts , and are chim set in - door and
thresholds ney flues , and are the of parpoints window sills six and inches tops , thick also the . The labels over jambs the front , top doors s back and windows and moulded , , are cornice all hewn at the and front tooled ; both . There are well is a hewn square , tooled cornice , guttered at the ,
ei and hteen the inches joints thick corked furnished water-tig with ht . semicircular The yard walls coping are stones of random on the stone top , . and with The g ther nags privies e are set are flag on edge of s at parpoints , . the . The front ground , and and back floors the ash doors are pits laid averag are with made ing good off about self from - three faced the yards yards flags ,
five to each feet house wide , in and front a hearth is to d each with bed river -room stones chimney and p side iece . stones The are foot set path at , , pave , floors stairs the edge for : it . keep goes There ing down provisions is ab a out cellar four in to steps each there , of and is the also holes houses a slop are , formed Nos ' stone . 1 in under and each 2 , the kitchen under groun the . d
Slating . —The roofs are covered ; with Welsh slate and stone ridging . smoothing Plastering lathed . —All and the walls lastered are two plastere coats d and two the coats slate ; and s well the ointed ceilings . and
p , p and Fire the -fixtures parlors and . —The all other living- p rooms laces where have each fire-p a laces boiler are , oven shown , and , are fire fitted -grates up , with stove grates . timber is American ine
deal out Carpentry , ) ( except the floors , the Joinery roofs have ; and and beams ( Hazing windows and . — joints The of Nbs and . are 1 and covered 2 , which with p are inch of through boards Baltic - .
The , stairs are made of inch boardsand are two feet six inches wide . The partition at the side of the stairs , is of three of -quarter inch There boards , and the
joists and partitions fixed fixed which over on divide all fifteen the bed the inches - bed rooms betwixt -room . The s are their roofs centres _smoothing have . two . ribs on are each ceiling side , spars
stone The jambs outside with doors bands , both and front gudgeon and _Tback s , and , are hav framed e a Lancashire batten doors handle hung set on to eachtlie front doors have on each a plate lockand the back doors a flat
iron bolt ; . The inside doors , the privy doors , and , yard doors , are all batten
Cottage Habitations. 77
COTTAGE HABITATIONS . 77
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Oct. 1, 1859, page 77, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01101859/page/5/
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