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or the pitch of the roof was remarkably steep, or 

 the ground-plan was octagonal. In the Parliamentary 

 Surveys accounts of a num- 

 ber of these pavilions are 

 described, with all their 

 details. 



In the middle of one side 

 of the garden Rea advises 

 locating a " handsome oc- 

 tagonal summer-house roofed 

 every way and finely painted 

 with landskips, furnished 

 with seats about and a table 

 in the middle, serving both for delight and use, 

 a place wherein to store bulbs, etc." The charming 

 little summer-house at Iford Manor near Bradford- 

 on-Avon seems to answer almost 

 exactly to this description, and 

 a similar one at Bramshill is 

 shown in the illustration on the 

 opposite page. 



There are attractive pavilions 

 at Nun Moncton, near York, 

 and the Cedars, Beckington, 

 Somersetshire, containing single rooms, one twelve 

 feet square and the other ten. Large ones are at 

 Charlton, Kent, and Drayton, in Northamptonshire. 



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