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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/203807 =Transcript= (xi) partment, as likewise great Stairs, that lead up to the Chamber-Floor, and over that an Attick Story. The Kitchen-Offices are on one side of the House, and the Stables on the other, join'd by circular cover'd passages to the House. The House of Offices are built with an excellent Stone dug in that neighbourhood.

PLATE XL. A //Villa// built for his Grace the Duke of //Argyll// at //Sudbrooke// near //Richmond// in //Surrey//, joining to //New-Park//. Here is a Cube-Room of 30 feet, handsomely adorn'd and lighted from two Portico's. It has two Apartments off of it, and over them Lodging rooms. There are Vaults and other Offices under-ground. This House is built of Brick, except the Ornaments, which are of //Portland// Stone.

PLATE XLI. The Plan and the Two Fronts of a large House for a Gentleman in the County of //York//, 230 feet in Front and 130 feet in the End-Fronts. You rise 10 feet by an easy ascent to the principal Floor, and enter a Hall 36 feet square, having an Apartment on each hand, and a Passage 8 feet wide, that gives a Communication between the Great Stairs and Back-Stairs. Right forward from the Hall there is a Salon of 36 feet by 60, and 36 feet high, lighted from Courts 36 feet square, and beyond the Salon a Gallery 102 feet in length and 25 in breadth, with an Apartment at each end. In the middle of each End-Front there is a large Room, one for a Chapel, and the other for a Library. This Story is 20 feet high, and underneath are convenient Offices 10 feet high, and over the grand Apartments good Lodging Rooms 15 feet high, cov'd-, with a convenient Passage of Communication to render all the Rooms private. This Building is of the Corinthian Order, rais'd on a Rustick Basement.

PLATE XLII. The Plan and Upright of a House 100 feet in Front, and 70 feet deep. Here is a Hall of 30 feet by 32, and 15 feet high, and on each hand of it is a Room of 20 feet by 22, off of which there is a Closet, and a Passage that gives a Communication to the Offices. Straight forward from the Hall is a Dining-Room of the same dimensions with it, having on one side a Withdrawing-Room, and a Bedchamber on