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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 



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Fig. 571. Plans of L-shaped 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 



