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 9U2 COTTAGE, FARM, AND VILLA ARCHITECTURE. 1589 to the right, or north, which answers to the library in the preceding elevation, but does not retire back so much beyond the general line of the front, is so treated as distinctly to mark it as being of a subordinate character; yet so that, while it 1590 tends to set off the rest, it is suf- ficiently in keeping with it. The features are plainer, but neither neglected nor destitute of a certain sobriety of adornment; and the solidity of the lower part, in which there is only the door, forming the entrance to the offices, is as valu- able for the effect it produces to the eye, as it is desirable in itself. 1838. The Ground Floor, fig. 1590. In this plan, the porch, a, eleven feet by five feet six inches, opens into an inner porch or recess, b ; adjoining to which is a small staircase, c, leading down to the servants' hall, &c. In b are a few steps, forming an ascent into the vestibule, d, twenty-one feet six inches by fifteen feet. Beyond this (from which it is detached by an open screen) is the staircase, e, seventeen feet square, and thirty-four feet to the summit. On the right of the vestibule is a breakfast, or morning, room, /, twenty feet six inches by nmeteen feet ; and, next to this, is the dining-room, q, thirtv-two feet by nineteen feet, with a bay window on one side, and an alcove for the sideboard opposite it, making the entire width, including these two recesses, twenty-nine feet six inches. On the opposite side of the vestibule are two drawingrooms, h and i, twenty feet six inches by nineteen feet, and thirty-two feet by nineteen feet, communicating with each other by foWing doors, so as, when required, to give an extent of upwards of fifty feet. Com- municating with the larger of these, but not in a direct line, is the library, k, twenty-