ENTRANCES AND CARRIAGE COURTS. 



FIG. 39. 



is an inner court, the space for carriages being between the stables on one side and 

 the offices on the other. In many cases there were two carriage courts, a plan which 

 has been adopted for Graythwaite Hall (111. No. 41), and which may in future have to 



be resorted to in those 



places where the existing 



court cannot be enlarged. 



In the planning of a 



modern house this is 



seldom done, the chief 



entrance being on the line 



of the main block, or at 



the end of a projecting 



wing, with no building 



whatsoever to flank either 

 side of the carriage turn, and usually no 

 terraces on the entrance side ; the park, 

 pastures, and natural portions of the 

 grounds being allowed to run up to the 

 edge of the gravelled carriage space. This 

 change of plan is probably responsible for 

 the curved or circular form of court, the 

 absence of architectural limitations giving 



the landscapist an oppor- 

 tunity of introducing his 



curves, as in illustration 



No. 40. This feature is 



one of the most sensible 



things he has ever devised, 

 .because the shape, if well 



considered, indicates the 



lines which a carriage 

 FTC, 40. would most naturally 



follow when driving to or 

 from the front entrance. 



In certain recent examples, especially 

 where Georgian traditions are followed, 

 there is a tendency to return to the 

 architectural carriage court, by enclosing 

 the remaining side with gate-houses or high 

 masonry, as at Wood, N. Devon, (111. 



No. 22 ), 



and at 



Th ornton 



Manor, 



where the carriage court is enclosed from the public 



highway by the gatehouse illustrated in Nos. 81 and 82. 



In others a pleasing and protected court is formed by 



projecting the kitchen wing on one side (the windows 



being arranged on the opposite side), and the billiard wing 



on the other, frequently enclosing nearly the entire court. 



This desire for a well-screened carriage court is eminently 



FIG. 42. 



GG/WTHWAITE 



MALL 



UMP5T01W" 



FIG. 41. 



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