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 966 COTTAGE, FARM, AND VILLA ARCHITECTURE. tiles laid in cement, in the manner known about London as terrace roofs. The reasons for omitting the roofs as features in the Design are, that the building may have a more imposing and architectural character, and that the great expense of constructing circular sloping roofs to be both sightly and weather-proof, which can only be effectually done by using tiles made on purpose, might be avoided. The following are the details of the ground plan: — a, veranda for exercising horses, or for riding or driving under during rainy weather, being ten feet wide in the clear, fifteen feet high, and nearly two hundred feet long ; b, gateway to the inner court ; c, stable for farming horses ; d, coach-house ; e, harness-room, ■with fireplace ; J", stall for a single horse ; g, stair to a billiard-room over d, e, andf; h, hay-bin; i, saddle-horse stable; k, entrance to the stable and cen- tral court ; I, stable for hunters ; m, hay-bin ; n, stable for coach-horses ; o, hay -bin ; p, harness-room with stove ; q, coach-house ; r, two-stall stable ; s s, hay-racks for horses running loose in the inner court ; t, Dutch barn, covering a hayrick ; u, pumps and trouglis for supplying water ; v, situation of a cesspool, in which all the liquid manure of the stables is collected, and from which it is conveyed by an underground drain to another cesspool, tvhere it is preserved till wanted for use. The dung-pit is at some distance, walled in, and covered by a roof. Sr.fT. II. Riding-houses. 1938. A Riding-house, it is observed by our correspondent Selim, § 1716, is a luxury not often wanted in villas of moderate size ; and we shall, therefore, only notice the subject briefly. The form of a riding-house is generally that of a parallelogram ; though that at Brighton, some in London, and the veranda at Garth, as well as others in different parts of the country, are circular. When the latter form is adopted, the diameter should not be much less than one hundred feet ; the centre of the circle may contain one or more columns, or a tower for the support of the roof, though it is more convenient, for the exercise of horsemanship, to construct the roof without any supports from the ground. A parallelogram riding-house cannot well be less tlian one hundred feet long, and forty feet broad ; but riding-houses of tliis shape are generally built of larger dimensions. In general, at the ends of a parallelogram riding-house there are small galleries, and seats for spectators ; and in circular riding-houses the galleries are placed round a single column, or within a circle of columns, in ths centre of the structme.