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would thus be a cheerful breakfast or morning room, and the 

 sun will have left it long before the usual dinner hour. The 

 door from the corridor into the conservatory would also serve 

 as a garden door, there being another door opposite to it into 

 the garden. 



On the north-west side of the house there is an office, busi- 

 ness, or gentleman's room (10), containing a recess for an 

 iron safe (11), and readily accessible from the servants' apart- 

 ments. Next there is a butler's pantry (12), with a recess 

 for a plate safe (13), this apartment being placed as near as 

 possible to the entrance door and the entertaining rooms, 

 besides being in the neighborhood of the kitchen and over- 

 looking, by its window, the approach to the house. At 14, 

 detached alike from the main corridor and from the servants' 

 passage, is a water-closet, and 15 is the housekeeper's room. 

 The kitchen (16) has a scullery (17) and a pantry or store- 

 closet (18) attached to- it, the windows looking into the 

 house-yard. A servants' corridor (19) is terminated by 

 a back staircase (20), which is close to the servants' hall 

 (21), the latter having its windows opening to the drying- 

 ground and being near the back entrance. None of the 

 office windows look into the garden or pleasure grounds, 

 as the window for lighting the back corridor may be of 

 dulled glass. 



In the house-yard (22) there is sufficient space for a cart to 

 turn, and from this yard only is there access to the drying- 

 ground (25), which has a hedge on the side next the house- 

 yard. The coal-shed (24), ash-pit (25), and water-closet (26), 

 are placed in a recess of the house-yard, where they are more 

 out of observation, and the yard is thus left clearer, neater, 

 and more compact. The numbers 27, 28, and 29 refer to a 

 compost and rubbish yard, the kitchen garden, and a flower 

 garden, respectively. 



