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 678 COTTAGE, FARM, AND VILLA ARCHITECTURE. bable that country inns, along the great public roads, will be almost the only permanent and substantial palace-like dwellings. Our opinion is, that, with the advancement of civilisation, country inns, in all parts of the world, will, as architectural objects, rank next to buildings for public offices. Sect. II. Miscellaneous Designs for Country Inns and Public Houses. 1421. 7'/(e Desif^ns submitted under this section embrace but a very few of the nu- merous varieties of inns and public houses which are suitable for the country ; but, as whoever can compose a good villa is equally competent to compose a country inn, we consider the following selection amply sufficient. We have, besides, already given a Design for a country inn combined with a farm, § 1 149, which we consider exceedingly well arranged ; and many of our cottages in Book I. will answer, with very little alter- ation, for hedge alehouses. Design I. — yl Country Inn in the Italian Style ; having, besides public liooms, Thirty Bed-rooms, and Stabling for Twenty Horses. 1422. Accommodation. The general appearance is shown in fig. 1295 ; and the 1295 ground floor, fig. 1298, consists of an entrance porch, a ; vestibule and staircase, b; 1297