SMITHSON'S HOUSE-PLANS 



FlG. 16. Bolsover Castle, Derbyshire. The Riding-House. 



the hall the principal apartment of the house, placing it between 

 the family rooms and the servants' quarters. The plan " for My 

 Lord Sheffield's house " is an example of this arrangement (Fig. 

 14). It shows the rooms grouped in the old way round a 

 courtyard, which had to be traversed in approaching the hall 

 from the front door. The hall itself was entered through the 

 screens at its lower end, and was flanked at its upper end by 

 the parlour and other family rooms, and by the grand staircase.. 

 On the opposite side of the court were the kitchen, pantry, and 

 other rooms for the service of the house. In the four corners of 

 the court were square turrets containing subsidiary staircases. 

 On the upper floor (Fig. 14) the chief rooms were the dining- 

 chamber, placed as far from the kitchen as the limits of the 

 house would allow, and the long gallery. The fact of a special 

 room being set apart for dining itself indicates a fairly late date 

 in respect of this ancient type of plan. As my Lord Sheffield 

 was created Earl of Mulgrave in 1626, the plan must be prior to 

 that year, but the house was probably not more than ten years 

 old when the change of title took place. 



