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toc =Image= Source: <> book of architecture containing designs of buildings and ornaments / by James Gibbs. http://www.e-rara.ch/zut/content/pageview/203813 =Transcript= (xvii) circular Lights, and two Windows, one on each side of the Door. There are four Rooms with Closets off of the Salon, and four more over them, with two Stair-cases. The Offices under-ground are managed as in the foregoing Draught; as also the Kitchen and Servants Hall, which are in Courts without-doors

PLATE LXIII. A house of 58 by 44 feet, containing six Rooms on a Floor, with two Stair-cases. The Kitchen is on one side of the Court, and the Stables on the other, with Rooms over them, and are join'd to the House by circular Arcades. The Rooms on the principal Floor are 12 feet high. The Front is plain, with Architraves round the Windows. The Design was made for a Gentleman in //Yorkshire//.

PLATE LXIV. A Draught done for a Gentleman in //Essex//. I have given on this Plate the general Plan of it, and two Fronts. From a Court of 115 feet by 93, the Angles sweeping off, you ascend by five Steps into a Hall of 28 feet by 22, and pass forward to a Dining-Room of 18 feet by 28 towards the Garden, having on the right a Withdrawing-Room, a Bedchamber and Dressing-Room, and on the left a Waiting-Room and a Library of 30 feet by 18. The Body of the House is only 73 feet by 47, the Bedchamber and Closet on one side, and the Library on the other, going only one Story high. The Rooms on the principal Floor are 16 feet high, and the Chamber Story over them is 12 feet high. On each side of the Hall, there is a Stair-case, and also a Room out of which you go through a Dorick Colonnade to the Offices on each side of the Court.

PLATE LXV. The Plan and Front of a House of six Rooms on a Floor with two Stair-cases, made for a Gentleman in //Oxfordshire//. The principal Rooms are 16 feet hight, and the Chamber Story 11.

PLATE LXVI. A Design of a House for a single Gentleman, 61 feet in front and 33 feet deep. The Hall is 14 feet 6 inches by 24 feet, in which the Stair-case. Beyond that is a Dining-Room of 24 feet by 18, having F two