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portico at one end, and a loggia with square columns on cacli side, by Wil- 

 kins ; witli a secondary mass, and a conservatory in tlie Ionic style, by R. 

 C. Cockerel). An elevation lias l)cen already given (1. fig. II. j). lOG.) ; but 

 it is on so small a scale, tliat it gives no adequate idea of the simplicity, gran- 

 deur, and beauty of this mansion. Scarcely any picture, indeed, can do 

 justice to it : its temple-like magnificence must be seen to be felt ; and, in- 

 deed, it will repay any one who has a taste for architcf^ture, to travel a hun- 

 dred miles out of his way to see it. We shall never finget iIk; first impres- 

 sion made on us by the Doric ])ortico, when we saw it iiom the road to the 

 kitchen garden, on the bank forming the opposite side of the valley. The 

 Ionic conservatory is the finest thing of the kind in EngUnul ; anil, in our 

 opinion, far surpasses those of Syon and of Alton Towers. Its characteris- 

 tics are simplicity and grandeur. We do no; know that we can find a fault 

 with the house, unless it were that the chimney-shafis of the main body are 

 not architectural enough ; and that those of the addition by IMr. Cockerell 

 are altogether concealed. This part contains the kitchens ; and the roof 

 being unseen as well as the chimney-shafts, the smoke appeared to us as if 

 ascending from ruins, or from a fallen-in roof. This bad effect is, in our 

 opinion, a sufficient argument why chimney-shafts should, in all cases, be 

 shown ; but if they are to be concealed in one part of a house, they ought to 

 be concealed in every part of it, I'or the sake of unity of system. (See .,^rch. 

 w1/ag., II. ;3;3.) There is also a petty little N-sooden excrescence to the en- 

 trance loggia, which conveys the idea of a porch to a London banker's 

 counting-house, rather than the portico of a villa. There ought here, as in 

 every large country villa, to have been a projecting portico to drive under, 

 as at Bear Wood, and at Eastwel] Park by Bonomi. Notwithstanding these 

 trifling faults, and the alleged unsuitableness of the severity of the Doric 

 ortler for a villa, we cannot help adnuring the Grange as one of the noblest 

 of British villas. The approach to the entrance front is through an avenue 

 of lime trees, 100 ft. wide, and twice as many years old ; having, as we are 

 informed, been planted in the time of Inigo Jones, who built the first house, 

 nearly on the present site, for Lord Chancellor Hyde. The road has the 

 great fault of descending to the house ; but, as the fall is not above 3 feet, it 

 might easily be remedied by lowering the surface. An avenue, to maintain 

 a character of art, should not only be in a straight direction, or in a direction 

 composed of geometrical lines ; but it should be over a surface of geomet- 

 rical forms: that is, the surface should either be level, of an even slope, or, 

 as far as practicable, of regular swells and declivities. It should never 

 assume a direction, or pass over a surface, which could be supposed to be 

 natural or accidental. If the conducting of an avenue over such a surface, 

 and in such a direction, is found, in any case, to be altogether unavoidable, 

 then, to maintain the character of art, recourse must be had to foreign trees, 

 most studiously arranged. Onr readers will observe, that these refnarks on 

 the subject of avenues have reference to our ])rincii)le of the Recognition of 

 Art; a principle which we find to be of the utmost value, both in landscape- 

 gardening and in architecture. By this principle, we are enabled to deter- 

 mine many points which were before involved in uncertainty, chiefly from 

 the difficulty of deciding what was meant by the imitation of nature. The 

 result will be, when the principle is ])ioperly undeistood, a greater unanimity 

 of judgment on matters of taste than has ever heretofore been displayed." 



Art. 2. On Cottage Allotments. 

 A good article, but not containing information useful to our 

 readers. 



Art. 3. Design for a Gardener's House. 



Art. 4. Design for a Kitchen Garden of seven acres. 

 An excellent design, being No. 8 of a continuation of series by 



