PLATE II. 



Stable Offices erected at Upton, Berks. 



THESE offices were erected near Didcot. There is accommoda- 

 tion for four horses, with all the other necessary accessories, 

 and lofts and grooms' rooms are provided for over same. The 

 building is of red brick, broken up with blue brick courses ; the 

 roof is covered with red Staffordshire tiles. The main feature is 

 the stable, which is grouped in the centre, and a half-timber gable 

 projecting towards the courtyard, finished on top with a ventilator 

 and iron finial or weather-vane. The view given shows the picturesque 

 effect rather towards the court, as the building is designed to be apart 

 from the house, and the appearance towards the outside and back 

 not to be studied so much as towards the courtyard, the only place 

 into which visitors would enter. The site for such a building should 

 not be close to the mansion, but in the park, or nestling on the border 

 of a game-cover, or in some similar position near to it, not too far 

 removed from the liouse. 



The cost was under £6^0, and this size of stable offices is suitable 

 for a country-house of some ^4000 value. 



