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from the house. Plans of two stables of this kind are shown in fig. 571. 

 The accommodation provided in one plan includes a loose -box and two 

 stalls for horses, and a smaller stall for a pony, a harness-room, heating- 

 chamber, and coach-house; over the heating-chamber and harness -room 

 there is a room for a man, and over the coach-house there is a large loft for 

 hay, corn, &c. In the original design for this building, a corn-store was 

 shown on the ground floor, two boxes were provided, and a glazed roof was 

 shown over part of the yard in front of the coach-house. The manure pit 

 and E.G. are at the back of the stables. The heating-chamber contains a 

 boiler, which serves to warm, by means of hot-water pipes, not only the 

 coach-house but also a range of lean-to green-houses built against the back 

 wall of the coach-house. The other plan shows the plans of a building 

 containing on the ground floor a small stable for three horses, harness- and 

 store-rooms, and coach-house, and on the first floor a hayloft over the stable, 

 and coachman's house over the other rooms. The stable and some of the 

 other rooms were originally shown larger, but the sizes were reduced in 

 order to bring the cost down to a specified amount, and consequently the 

 plans cannot be regarded as entirely satisfactory. They serve, however, as 

 an example of an economical range of buildings, and of one method of plan- 

 ning a coachman's house over part of the ground-floor space. Externally 

 the two buildings, of which the plans are given in fig. 571, were designed 

 to be in keeping with the adjacent houses. 



Materials. Some of the materials used in the construction of stables 

 will be treated upon in the detailed description of the several parts. With 

 regard to the walls and roof, there is no special material that is better than 

 another; whatever most harmonizes with the dwelling-house, or is most 

 characteristic of the locality, is suitable. Brick, stone, or even wood may 

 be selected. Both stone and brick walls can be easily kept dry by building 

 them with a hollow space in the centre. For the roof, slates are now 

 generally the cheaper, tiles the more picturesque. 



A good Stable should be 18 feet wide inside, and each stall should be 

 6 feet wide. The divisions of the stalls should be at least 9 feet long, 

 which will leave 9 feet for the passage behind the horses; or if the stall 

 division is 10 feet, as is better, the passage will be 8 feet wide. A stable 

 for cart-horses may be 16 feet, but the width of the stalls should not be 

 less than 6 feet; narrower stalls are often made, but for large horses this 

 width is indispensable. A good size for a loose-box is about 12 feet by 10, 

 but boxes often vary much in size according to convenience in planning or 

 caprice of the owner. The stable of olden time was a very dirty place, and 

 among many stable attendants ideas and habits in consonance therewith 

 too often still linger. In the modern stable, however, strict cleanliness is 



