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STABLES 



The room over the harness-room is often found suitable for this purpose. 

 It is not well to have too many stalls for horses in a single stable ; ranges 

 of four, or at the most five, with walls and doors between, are much better 

 both for isolation and quietness. 



Smaller Stables. — The quadrangular arrangement shown in fig. 570 



GROUND FLOOR 

 PLAN 



Scale of 9 ^ \Q ^^ ?,o ^^ ^P ^^ ^° *','' ^P ^.^ ^P Feet 



Fig. 571. — Plans of L-sliapod Stables 



cannot be adopted for small stables. As a rule the building takes the 

 form of a simple oblong, the stable itself being at one end, the corn-store 

 and harness-room in the middle, and the coach-house at the other end. 

 The central portion may be carried up to a greater height than the others, 

 in order to provide space for a hayloft or a man's room over the harness- 

 room and corn-store. In many cases an L-shaped plan is the most suitable 

 for the site, the coach-house serving to screen the stable from the garden or 



