COACH HOUSE 241 



PATENT HARNESS FITTINGS. 



A single set consisting of 



COACH HOUSE 



IN THE COACH HOUSE mere standing room is all that is necessary to 

 provide if the harness-room stove is made to answer the double purpose 

 of airing both, which can generally be managed. Open carriages may 

 be kept in tolerably good order without any stove, but the lining of close 

 carriages soon becomes mouldy unless heat in some form or other be 

 applied. This the groom is more likely to remember than a current of air, 

 which is equally necessary to carry off the moisture. 



GROUND PLANS OF STABLES 



IN DECIDING ON THE BEST ground plan for stabling a great deal must 

 always depend upon the kind and number of horses to be placed in it. 

 In the following plans I shall consider the two extremes afforded by 

 those for race-horses or hunters on the one hand, and on the other by 

 the hack or harness stable for two or three horses where space is a great 

 object. As a general rule race-horses and hunters require a loose box 

 each, because they are often greatly distressed, and must then have 

 entire rest and quiet to enable them to recover themselves. They are 

 also a great many hours together in the stable, and being called upon 

 for great exertions when out, they ought to have plenty of air when 

 indoors. The best proportions for their boxes are sixteen to eighteen 

 feet long by twelve feet wide and nine or ten high, but these are perhaps 

 a little above the average. Nevertheless I have given these in the plan on 

 page 242. 



It is divided into four separate stables thirty-six feet long and eighteen 

 wide, in which three or even four loose boxes may be separated by 

 partitions seven feet high with open iron tops, as shown at page 237, or 

 one or more may be divided by travises into six stalls each six feet wide. 

 I have already alluded to the fittings for each, and therefore I need say 

 nothing more here beyond alluding to the plan itself. 



THE ARCHITECT employed by the St. Pancras Iron Works has designed 

 a plan by which a loose box and two stalls may be arranged in a space 

 only sixteen feet by sixteen, as shown on the following page. Undoubtedly 

 it may sometimes happen that such an area may be at hand, and at the 

 same time, being incapable of alteration, it may be desirable to lodge 



