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Plate XI. — Qtfjt ^lan includes an entrance-porch and vaulted
corridor, communicating with the drawing and dining-rooms at each
extremity; and the breakfast-room, library, and parlour, which occupy
the intermediate space. The staircase is a peculiar feature in this
house : the steps wind round the inside of the central projection, over the
banket, as is spoken of in the book of Hester, and a side for the household; the one for feasts
and triumphs, and the other for dwelling. I understand both these sides to be not only returns,
but parts of the front, and to be uniform without, though severally partitioned within, and to
be on both sides of a great and stately tower in the midst of the front, that, as it were,
joineth them together on either hand. I would have on the side of the banket, in front,
one onely goodly room above stairs, of some fourty foot high. On the other side, which is
the household side, I wish it' divided first into a hall and a chapel, both of good state and
bigness, and those not to go all the length, but to have at the further end a winter and
summer-parler, both fair; and under these rooms, a fair and large cellar sunk underground;
and likewise some privy kitchens, with butteries and pantries, and the like. As for the
tower, I would have it two stories, of eighteen foot high a-piece, above the two wings, and
divided into rooms as shall be thought fit; the stairs, likewise, let them be upon a fair
open newel, and finely railed with images of wood, cast into a brass colour. I understand the
heigth of the first stairs to be sixteen foot, which is the heigth of the lower room.
“ Beyond this front there is to be a fair court; but three sides of it to be of a far lower
building than the front. And in all the four corners of that court fair staircases, cast into
turrets on the outside, and not within the row of buildings themselves. But these towers are
not to be of the heigth of the front, but rather proportionable to the lower buildings. Let the
court not be paved, for it striketh up a great heat in summer, and much cold in winter; but
only some side alleys, with a cross, and the quarter to graze being kept shorte. The row of
return on the banket side, let it be all stately galleries; let there be three or five cupolas in the
length of it, placed at equal distances, and fine-coloured windows of several works. On the
household-side, chambers of presence and ordinary entertainmentSj with some bed-chambers ;
and let all three sides be a double house, with thorow-lights on the sides, that you may have
rooms from the sun both for forenoon and afternoon. Cast it also that you may have rooms
Plate XI. — Qtfjt ^lan includes an entrance-porch and vaulted
corridor, communicating with the drawing and dining-rooms at each
extremity; and the breakfast-room, library, and parlour, which occupy
the intermediate space. The staircase is a peculiar feature in this
house : the steps wind round the inside of the central projection, over the
banket, as is spoken of in the book of Hester, and a side for the household; the one for feasts
and triumphs, and the other for dwelling. I understand both these sides to be not only returns,
but parts of the front, and to be uniform without, though severally partitioned within, and to
be on both sides of a great and stately tower in the midst of the front, that, as it were,
joineth them together on either hand. I would have on the side of the banket, in front,
one onely goodly room above stairs, of some fourty foot high. On the other side, which is
the household side, I wish it' divided first into a hall and a chapel, both of good state and
bigness, and those not to go all the length, but to have at the further end a winter and
summer-parler, both fair; and under these rooms, a fair and large cellar sunk underground;
and likewise some privy kitchens, with butteries and pantries, and the like. As for the
tower, I would have it two stories, of eighteen foot high a-piece, above the two wings, and
divided into rooms as shall be thought fit; the stairs, likewise, let them be upon a fair
open newel, and finely railed with images of wood, cast into a brass colour. I understand the
heigth of the first stairs to be sixteen foot, which is the heigth of the lower room.
“ Beyond this front there is to be a fair court; but three sides of it to be of a far lower
building than the front. And in all the four corners of that court fair staircases, cast into
turrets on the outside, and not within the row of buildings themselves. But these towers are
not to be of the heigth of the front, but rather proportionable to the lower buildings. Let the
court not be paved, for it striketh up a great heat in summer, and much cold in winter; but
only some side alleys, with a cross, and the quarter to graze being kept shorte. The row of
return on the banket side, let it be all stately galleries; let there be three or five cupolas in the
length of it, placed at equal distances, and fine-coloured windows of several works. On the
household-side, chambers of presence and ordinary entertainmentSj with some bed-chambers ;
and let all three sides be a double house, with thorow-lights on the sides, that you may have
rooms from the sun both for forenoon and afternoon. Cast it also that you may have rooms