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 840 COTTAGE, FARM, AND VILLA ARCHITECTURE. -V^'^.fcNXN*. ♦- W^. * ^ "-"^ cipal floor was regulated by the aspect, &c., of the locality. The lobby was placed in an angle, the better to shelter the entrance door of the hall from the northerly winds. which are very cutting in that neighbourhood. The window of the morning J"'*"/" commands a view of the road ; the dining-room window is to the south-east, and the drawingroom has one in the same direction, and another to the south-west that reaches to the ground, and opens on to the terrace ; but it is sheltered by a veranda from the afternoon and evening sun, which would otherwise be very annoying. A store-room 1 consider indispensable in every country residence. The morning room, when not oc- cupied, could be used to usher visiters into while being announced. The chambers have nothing uncommon about them, unless it is those over the dining and drawing rooms, which have windows down to the floor opening under the porticoes. If either ot these, but especially the former, should be for the use of an invalid for whom it might be considered desirable to retain an equable temperature throughout the night, this