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design, the playfulness of Jacobean detail being 

 subservient to quiet modelling, while the mouldings 

 and carving were kept broad and even coarse, to be 

 softened but not obliterated by time. Pyramidal tile 

 or lead roofs (figs. 3 1 and 41) are generally the best ; 

 but even here there is scope for much fancy, and 

 an oak lantern with a vane forms a pretty terminal. 

 Two enclosed garden houses are shown in figs. 41 

 and 42, the former having a sheltered verandah 

 before it, both being definitely architectural in 

 design. Another type is shown in the two designs 

 for a garden shelter at Ascott, each being arranged 

 as an alcove for a seat at the end of a broad walk. 

 In that in fig. 18 the roof is supported by columns, 

 but in fig. 3 the main structure is a semicircular 

 wall faced with tiles and crowned with a balustrade, 

 shaded by open timbers for climbing roses. 



The close connection between these little buildings 

 and the garden walls is seen in numerous old ex- 

 amples, where the roofs of the former add a seeming 

 stability to the brick and stonework of the latter, 

 and give to them an additional beauty. The 

 river wall which divided the Thames from the old- 

 time gardens along its northern bank from the 



