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PLATE III. 



Stable Offices erected near CJiobhani. 



THIS drawing shows the offices of a picturesque red brick and 

 half-timbered house near Chobham Common in Surrey. The 

 entrance to the stable is in the centre, and marked by a gable thrown 

 out over it. The stable is open to the roof, thus gaining all the 

 available breathing-space for the animals that it is possible to get. 

 The building is unpretentious, and the coach-house is built detached 

 from the stables. Provender-lofts and grooms' rooms are provided, 

 the latter being on the ground-floor. Red brick and tile roofing 

 have been used in the construction, and the floors are of Portland 

 cement concrete. The exterior aspect of the building is rendered 

 picturesque and quaint, in so far as the ventilator, instead of being 

 put over the centre, has been placed to one side, but directly over the 

 stable, and a pleasing effect thus attained. 



The cost of these offices has been about £T^0. This plan, with 

 the addition of another building, say, to contain boxes for four 

 hunters, and forming three sides of a quadrangle, occupying a position 

 opposite the coach-house, might be built for about ^looo. 



