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and Cotton's fishing -house at Beresford, in 

 Derbyshire (1674) (in stone and slate), and the 

 water pavilion at Wrest (brick with lead dome) 

 are to all intents and purposes garden-houses. 

 After the middle of the eighteenth century the 

 unpretentious comfort of these sober buildings 

 did not satisfy the taste of the time. Greek 

 temples and hermitages were thought more 

 elegant, and these in turn gave way to the rustic 

 summer-house with its draughts, its earwigs, and 

 its beetles. 



In the sixteenth century aviaries were occa- 

 sionally built in the greater gardens. No 

 instances of these are left ; but a Curious 

 account of the aviary at Kenilworth is pre- 

 served in the description of the Queen's enter- 

 tainment at Kenilworth in 1575. This aviary 

 was 20 feet high, 30 long, and 14 broad. 

 At about 5 feet. from the ground there were 

 four windows in the front and two at each end, 

 with mullions, transoms, architraves, and circular 

 heads. Between the windows there were piers 

 with flat pilasters carrying an elaborate cornice, 

 the frieze of which was decorated with imitations 

 of precious stones, diamonds, rubies, emeralds, 

 and sapphires, carved and painted. The build- 

 ing was not roofed in, and the windows had no 

 glass, but instead fine wire netting was strained 

 across the top and behind the windows. In 

 the walls at the back niches were formed for 

 the birds to roost in. The inside was planted 



