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 FITTINGS-UP OF VILLA OFFICES. 1819 1019 u °o n 5? 3 o^" a oo E,the larder, sixteen feet by sixteen feet; F, the pantry, of the same size; G, refrigeratory, under an open shed ; H, apparatus-room, sixteen feet by sixteen feet ; I, pastry-room ; K, store-room ; and L, fuel-roora, each sixteen feet by sixteen feet. The fuel-room is divided into six bins for charcoal, coal coke, wood for lighting fires, common coal, coal cinders, and coke cinders, or coke breize as the cinders of coke are usually called. " The details of this plan are as follow : — In the kitchen, C, a a are large kitchen tables, which are fixtures with cast-iron legs and oak tops ; each table has a row of large strong drawers beneath, nine feet long by three feet three inches wide; 6 b are two long ranges of what are commonly called ' stew-holes,' or apertures of various sizes in a cast-iron hot plate, for the admission and application of various culinary vessels, all heated by one close fire or small furnace at the end next the kitchen door. Beneath the flue which heats the top plate and stew-holes may be placed a range of hot-closets for heating plates or other things, or performing operations requiring a low heat ; c c are two plates, or hearths, on which any large or wide vessels may be placed to boil, &c. ; beneath each is a cubical oven, round which the flame of the fire or furnace, which is placed at the ends, y y, is caused to play, and in these ovens such is the heat, that meat may be roasted, or baked, by proper regulation of the fire. Dampers should be provided to all flues in kitchens, in order that a perfect command of heat may be obtained. Both b b and c c may be about two feet six inches wide ; the wall against which they are built should have a proper cast-iron skirting, one foot above their top level ; d is a range of charcoal hearths or grates, such as arv in common use on the Continent. Each is simply a frustum at