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 586 COTTAGE, FARM, AND VILLA ARCHITECTURE. j < 1 lb i r[ I k r r$> heavy rains. In all inns whatever, we would have the main entrance either under an archway to the yard or court, 1310 or under such a porch or portico as would admit of a carriage of the largest size. We have ex- perienced the great comfort of carriage entrances of this kind, both in inns and in private houses on the Continent ; and we are surprised that Architects, who have travelled, should not have introduced them more generally in this country. We do not recommend that arch- ways through the building, with apartments over them, should be adopted as substitutes for projecting porticoes ; these, where they occur, we would rather consider as adjuncts, to be used when two carriages chanced to arrive or depart at the same time. What we should wish to see would be bold projecting porticoes, or Gothic porches, form a prominent part of the front, such as we see to some villa residences. Three of these, which occur to our recol- lection at this moment, are Lord Winchelsea's, in Kent, for a Grecian example ; Eaton Hall, for a carriage-porch in the Gothic style ; and General St. John's cottage, in Sussex, for a carriage-porch in the oldEnglish cottage style. The ground plan does not show the wings, which may consist of iwo rooms and a passage on each floor. Design V. — A Suburban Public House in the Old English Style. 1442. The princijml object of this Design is to show the arrangement of the bar and counter in those public bouses which are supported chiefly by the sale of liquors in small quantities, either drunk in the shop, standing at the counter, or carried home in brought vessels by the purchasers. The general appearance of this house is shown in fig. 1311.