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naturally selects a road frontage facing south. In adopting the opposite 

 arrangement, not only is privacy obtained and that air of seclusion which is 

 essential to the ideal garden, but the house itself constitutes a substantial 

 screen to northern winds as well as to the dust and noise of the street. In 

 placing the kitchen premises towards the road, the route to the back door is 

 reduced to a minimum, and the whole of the kitchen premises are isolated 

 from the garden. In the case of a house facing a frontage to the south, it 

 would be desirable to place it well back from the road so as to allow of a 

 garden in front of it. The front door should then be placed at one end so 

 that the approach to it can be formed at one side of the plot, and may be 

 screened with a hedge from the garden. In the case of a house having a 

 frontage to the east, it will often be desirable to adopt the same scheme as I 

 have suggested for a northern frontage, making in this case a western garden 

 frontage, and by the use of bays securing still a share of southern aspect. 

 Kach site will demand its own special treatment, and in those with an eastern 

 or western frontage, where the frontage admits, it will often be desirable to 

 place the house with its end towards the road, an arrangement which may 

 often be met with in old villages. 



That the majority of people really demand as a sine qua non that they 

 shall have a bay-window facing the road it is difficult to believe, and its 

 continual recurrence, 1 feel assured, is owing merely to a fixed idea on the 

 part of the builder whose commercial training leads him to forget the 

 essential difference between the house and the shop. 



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