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PLATE XXXVII.

The Plan and the two Fronts of a House designed for a Person of Quality in //Somersetshire//. It is 143 feet in Front, 102 in the End-Fronts. You rise by ten Steps into a Hall of 30 feet by 40, and 20 feet high; and right forward there is a Cube-Room of 30 feet, which has on each side a handsome Apartment 18 feet high. On each side the Hall there is a Parlour and a Passage of Communication to a Stone Stair-case: The fist Landing of which gives access to Intersoles over the Closets, and the second to the upper Rooms. The Parlour on the right leads to the Chapel, and that on the left to two other Rooms. The Fronts are to be of rough Stone finish'd with Stucco, but the Ornaments of the Windows, Doors, Coines, Cornishes and other Projections, of an excellent Stone dug near the place. The Principal Front commands a fine Prospect of the //Severne//, and the Garden-Front a beautiful view of the Park.

PLATE XXXVIII. A Draught made for //William Hanbury//, Esq; for a House now building in //Northamptonshire//. You rise four Steps, and enter a Lobby of 13 by 18 feet, and thence pass into a Room of 25 feet by 22, an 22 feet high, which has at each end a Room of 25 by 20 feet. On each side the Lobby there is a Stair-case, and off of the Stairs a Room of 16 by 20 feet: Over this there are two Stories of Lodging Rooms, and under it convenient Offices all arch'd, and on each side of the Court the Kitchen and Stables. The Front extends 84 feet by 46, and is to be built of Brick, and the Ornaments of Stone.

PLATE XXXIX. The Plan and Upright of the Right Honourable the Earl of //Litchfield//'s House at //Ditchley// in //Oxfordshire//. Here are ten Rooms on a Floor, besides two great Stairs and four Back-Stairs. You ascend ten Steps, and enter a Hall of 31 feet 6 inches by 35 feet 2 inches, and 34 feet high, enrich'd with Fret-Work and Painting. From the Hall you go into a Dining-Room towards the Garden of 23 feet by 31 feet 6 inches, which has a handsome Apartment upon the right hand, and on the left a Withdrawing-Room and a large Room of 36 feet by 21, with a Closet and Back-Stairs. On each side of the Hall there is a good A- partment,