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 916 COTTAGE, FARM, AND VILLA AIICIIITECTUUE. closet for plate ; v, housekcoiJcr's room ; ic, kitchen ; x, scullery ; y, wet larder ; z, vege- table larder ; tf, dry larder ; a, game larder ; h', servants' hall ; c', cleaning and dressing room for men-servants ; d', servants' entrance from the yard ; e' and /', coal-cellars ; ff' and h', beer-cellars ; i', brewhouse and bakehouse ; k', open yard ; I', maid-servants' ])rivies ; m', privies for stable-men, &c. ; n, four-stalled riding-horse stable ; o', loose box for a sick horse ; p', harness-room ; q', coiich-house ; r', entrance to stable-yard ; s', coach- house ; if, harness-room ; u, loose boxes for sick horses ; v, hay-room ; iv', clock- house ; x', corn-room ; y', coach-horses' stable ; z', double coach-house ; cj-', stable-yard ; aa, private entrance from the lawn ; bb, space for conservatory. The apartments, f/, It, and i, arc shut in by a door at fi, and may form a suitable bed-room, dressing-room, and water-closet for an infinn person, unable to go up stairs. The business-room, 7/1, com- mands a view of the yard. The gentlemen's water-closet, s, is situated near the billiard- room and dining-room. The large vegetable larder, 2, is only roofed to the line of columns, and the outer half is left open as a yard. The ground is high opposite the coal-cellars, e and /, and the coals are let down, in the usual way, by an opening in the roof. The malt and hops are delivered into a gallery in the brewhouse, from tlie same elevated ground. On entering the hall, a, a vista presents itself, 300 feet in length, ex- tending through the billiard-room, r, and terminating in a beautiful stained-glass window at its farther end. The billiard -table is fixed, altogether independently of the floor, in the following manner ; — Stone piers, two feet square, are carried up from the foundation, which is here a freestone rock, directly under the position of each foot of the table. The piers are terminated by cones of stone, whose bases cover the area of the piers, and whose summits are truncated, the diameter of the section being four inches, or about half an inch more than that of the feet of the table. The height of the upper surface of these cones is on an exact level with the intended floor of the room ; and this floor is not put down till the billiard-table is set and levelled. This being done, the floor is put down altogether independently of the cones ; the object being to prevent the possibility of communicating the slightest motion to the billiard-table, by the players or others walking roimd it, while the game is going forward. The billiard-table is lighted during the day by a lantern skylight (a skylight with upright sides, glazed, and an opaque cover), of the exact size of the table, twelve feet by six feet, and directly over it ; and in the evenings there is a lamp suspended from the centre of the roof of the lantern. The roof of the billiard-room is flat, and forms a flower balcony to the dressing-room of the lady of the house. The entrance hall, finished with niches, and lighted by a glass dome, has a very handsome effect. 1857. 77ie Chamber Floor, fig. 1601, shows, a, great staircase; f>, best spare b^d-