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to render both kitchen and scullery as wholesome by ventilation as possible,there should be a small flue from the ceiling of each to carry off heated air andvapour. The kitchen stalk would thus contain six flues from below and twofrom above.
296. The upper storey should be partitioned off in the way as seen in fig. 22.Let the apartment a above thescullery be fitted up with a fire-place / as a bedroom for the femaleservants, having a closet c in theouter wall. After taking oft’ a pas-sage g of 3^ feet in width alongthe whole length of this part of thehouse, this room will be 14 feet by 10.
The space above the kitchen maybe divided into two bedrooms, oneb, 14 feet by 9 feet, and 9 in height,with a fireplace / and window, andcloset c. This might be occupiedas a sitting-room and bedroom bythe housekeeper, if the services ofsuch a person are required ; if not,it might bo a largo store-room,with a fireplace, which would beuseful for various purposes. Theroom d, 14 feet by 8 feet 3 inches,and 9 in height, having a window in it, but no fireplace, might be a bedroomfor occasional stranger servants. It has a closet e in it, 3 feet by 2 in depth.
297. At the end of the passage is a water-closet i, lighted by a window inthe gable of the jamb. It is 5 feet 3 inches by 3-Jr feet. It has water from thesame cistern that supplies the sink in the scullery, and its soil-pipe descends inan appropriate recess in the wall. Its window could give light to the passageg by a glass window above the door, or light might be obtained by a cupolain the roof, or from the cheese-room h by windows in the lath-and-plaster wall.
298. The entire space above the kitchen-pantry and milk-house may be appro-priated to a cheese-room h, 29 feet 2 inches by 12 feet, and 9 in height, with 3windows. Besides the floor, proper shelving m m would afford accommodation tothe cheese, in its various stages towards maturity; and the lower halves of thewindows provided with Venetian shutters, outside the glass, to regulate the airinto the room when the windows are opened. Except in dairy farms, the milk-liouse and cheese-room are most conveniently placed within the farmhouse.
299. If there is sufficient room in the roof above these various apartments fora garret, access can be obtained to it by a stair at Z, which would have to returnupon itself in ascending the 9 feet, the height of the storey ; and both this stairand the one k down to the kitchen could be lighted by a long window at n. Ifthere is no garret, then the cheese-room will be 32 feet 3 inches in length, by'dispensing with the stair Z, as also with the window n.
300. These dimensions of kitchen and other apartments would be suited tothe farmhouse of a farm of from 500 to 1000 acres, under the Mixed husbandry.The milk-liouse may, perhaps, be large enough for a small dairy-farm; but shouldit be preferred in the farmhouse, and it be too small for that purpose, it mighteasily be enlarged by increasing the length and breadth of the building.
Fig. 22.
OHKESE-ROOU, ETO., OF KARMH0D8E.