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 lOUU COTTAGE, FARM, AND VIJ.LA ARCHITECTURE. bed-room. There can be no doubt that tliis is a mere oversight in our contributor, which it is easy to correct by placing the stair in the living-room. 1780 Fig. 1789 is a view of an architectural lodge in the castellated style; and fig. 1790 is its ground plan. In the latter, the small building to the left is for coals; the dwelling contains a sitting-room and scullery on the ground floor, and three bed-rooms over. 1790 >-^ Fig. 1791 is a view of a castellated architectural lodge; and fig. 1792 is its ground plan. The effect of this Design and the preceding one is good : in the latter, there is a degree of symmetry, combined with variety, which is highly pleasing, and, at the sjune time, there is nothing which is at variance with the laws of strength, or oifensive to reason o"" good sense. 1791 1 989. IHten the Loilgc is independent of the Gate, and does not form an architectural composition with it, the gate-posts should be incons])icuous, and at some little distance from the lodge ; at all events, never attached to it. We shall give three examples of lodges of this description.