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PLATE LV. A Draught made for //Matthew Prior//, Esq; to have been built at //Down-Hall//, in //Essex//. It is 63 1/2 feet in front by 43 1/2 in depth. From a Court of 90 feet by 78 you ascend three Steps, and enter through an arch'd Portico into a Hall 25 feet square, which leds into a Parlour and Withdrawing-Room on one hand, and a Library on the other, with Great and Back-Stairs. The Room over the hall is a Cube of 25 feet, and has a Bedchamber and Closet on one side, and two Rooms, each 16 feet square, on the other, as mark'd by prick'd Lines. The Cube-Room is lighted on two sides from two Portico's of the Dorick Order. The Offices are on each side of the Court, having a cover'd Communication from the House by an Arcade. Mr. //Prior'//s Death prevented the building of this House.

PLATE LVI. A Draught made for a Gentleman in //Wiltshire//. It contains six Rooms on a Floor, besides four Closets and two Stair-cases. The Offices are on each side of the Court, which is of an Octogonal form. The Fronts are of Brick. The Coines, Ornaments of the Windows, Fascia's and Cornish are of Stone.

PLATE LVII. A House Design'd for a Gentleman in the Country, extending 101 feet in front by 64 in depth. You rise 8 Steps from a Court 160 feet square, and enter a Hall of 25 feet by 35, and pass forward into a Gallery 70 feet long and 22 feet wide, having Closets at each end. The Gallery may be divided into three Rooms upon occasion. On each side of the Hall there are Rooms of 20 by 22 feet, and Closets, with Passages to the Offices, and two Stair-cases that lead up to six Rooms and eight Closets on pair of Stairs, and to the same number of Rooms over them. The principal Floor is 16 feet high, the second 14, and the upper 8.

PLATE LVIII. A Design made for a Gentleman in //Dorsetshire//. It is 77 feet in front and 44 deep, having six Rooms on a Floor, with Closets and two Stair-cases. The Offices are on each side of an Octagonal Court.

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