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contrivance than a design for a palace, in which the 

 rooms may be so numerous that different apartments 

 may be provided for summer and for winter use; but 

 where compactness and economy are studied, some 

 contrivance is necessary to avail ourselves of views and 

 aspects, without sacrificing convenience and relative 

 fitness to the beauty of the prospect. 



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Fig. 26. Ground-plan of Villa at Brentry Hill, 

 a. Breakfast-room ; A, drawing-room, opening, with folding doors, to a small library; c, eating- 

 room ; d, kitchen ; «, kitchen court ; /, drying-ground ; g, part of the kitchen-garden ; ^i, stable 

 court 



Under this restraint perhaps few houses have been 

 built with more attention to the situation and circum- 

 stances of the place than the villa at Brentry [Figs. 25 

 and 26]. The eating-room is to the north, with one 

 window towards the prospect, which may be opened or 

 shut out by Venetian blinds at pleasure. The break- 

 fast-room is towards the south, and the drawing-room 

 towards the prospect. 



Modern habits have altered the uses of a drawing- 



