on those sides favourable for the growth of fruit-trees and the position 

 of vineries, and other buildings connected with the gardens. 



In this small work the author's object has been to show in a very 

 simple form how it is possible to make such a building as the stable 

 a well-planned, comfortable, and pleasing adjunct to the property, 

 whether of large or small pretensions. 



The author gives examples of about twenty stables, ten of which 

 have been executed in different parts of the country, and include the 

 stables at Grafton Hall, Cheshire (Plate XL), which are found con- 

 venient and suitable for a moderate establishment. The stables at 

 Wandle House (Plate XHI.) are perhaps the most complete of their 

 kind, and no expense has been spared by the owner to make them 

 show-stables — a pleasure to himself and his visitors. There the long 

 facade was somewhat difficult to treat ; but the result has been suc- 

 cessful, and the building forms a pleasing termination to the vista, and 

 serves to screen from view the adjoining property. 



The stables at Parkstone (Plate IX.) may be taken as another 

 example of what can be done in making a structure of this kind 

 pleasing and unobtrusive, and at the same time possessing some 

 quaint originality of treatment. This building is purposely disposed 

 of on the ground that the effect from the north or entrance front of 

 the house should be quaint, and harmonises with the house, which has 

 been designed in a similar style. 



The view of the stables at Park Place, near Windsor Park (Plate 

 XII.), is an instance of how an old and incongruous building may, 

 with a little trouble and care, be made to' harmonise with the mansion. 

 The additions are not of importance ; but changing the appearance of 

 the old part required some skill, with the result that the whole agrees 

 and harmonises with the house, and answers its purpose in all respects. 

 It is not often possible to change the general appearance of a group 

 of buildings ; but this is a simple case in point, where the remodelling 

 and alterations have been successfully attained at a very moderate 

 expense. 



The stables at Upton and Chobham (Plates II. and III.) are also 

 similar examples in this direction, all intended to show that these 

 buildings, which frequently have to find accommodation for very 

 valuable animals, can be planned on the most approved and 

 economical principles, and externally made pleasing and charac- 

 teristic of the purposes to which the building is devoted. 



