A CHEAP COTTAGE

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 33, 3 November 1919, Page 5

A CHEAP COTTAGE

BUILT OV iRISE-DK-TEKKE. Building at less than one-tenth the cost of bricks ilias resulted from a Miccesstul experiment in Surrey (states the London "Daily i\ewß"j.' Ilefe at Newhmds Corner, near Guildford, the outer walls of n cottage have been ereeteil at a cost of onlv J3. and the whole of the work has been carried nut by an invalided li.A/M.C. sergeant and his son. These walls, it seems, would have cost over .Kflfl'if curried out in burnt brick'. They ale an experiment, in pise-de-terre construction, and the cottage, says a report on ihe matter (hy the architect in ciiarje) appearing' in the current issue of tiie Spectator," contains a living room, parlour, three bedrooms, scullery, bathroom. mid coalhole. „ Rise-de-terre. construction recalls the ancient method of cottage building, in w:hicli various ina.tcriai.-, aeeordy? lo locality, were used for tlie walls—such as the cob used in Devonshire, it consists, its an early number of I lie "Spectator"' points out.' of dry earthen walls, about ISin. to iitin. thick, which owe. 1 heir i-'.ilidity i» ramming between wooden casino previously placed in position on both sides. The walls are built in slajin-s ;lfl. in height, tiie wood.'n casings beint; raised as required. The walls, whan completed, Rive, .-ays the "Spectator," a surface "5 hard as burnt brick. If is siirrr(.ij(iji([ that' it' special can is taken to avoid irivs'iihirilies on the interior side they mijjht be papered without plasterinp- . ~ ~i i • The earth used in Mr. Slracli;y s experimental cottivje has been dug trom immediately around the building, and there has been no cartins whatev;r, and practically no wheeling All Cue rooms »i'« ol the areas laid downi by the Bo,ml ot Wiciillurc as desirable for the houses ol r ,small-holders, and llv.ir cubic; content is considerably in excess of the s.audanl.