6 STABLE BUILDING AND STABLE FITTING. 



CHAPTER II. 



PLANNING AND ARRANGEMENT. 



Circumstances regulating arrangement — Administrative block — Washing- 

 room — Vestibule to stables — Arrangement of town stables — Rooms 

 over stables — Lairs and hock baths — Examples of stables — '* Private 

 stables," Design No. i — Design No. 2 — Design No. 3 (for town or 

 country) — Design No. 4 (Stables for hunters) — Design No. 5 (suburban 

 stables) — Designs No. 6 and 7 (town and country stables) — Difficulties 

 in towns — Stables in mews — Design No. 8 ("inclosed") — Stables on 

 upper floors — Dimensions of stables — Convertible stalls and boxes — 

 Portable partitions — Loose boxes with stalls — Capacity of stables — 

 Boxes for hunters — Covered way — Breeding stables — Racing stables — 

 Farm stables — Hay and corn stores — Preparation of fodder — Distribu- 

 tion of fodder — Capacity of hay and corn store — Cubic capacity of 

 hay — Tramway and omnibus stables — Omnibus stables — Tramway 

 stables — Manager's offices, &c. 



Circumstances The planning and arrangement of stables, with their necessary 



regu atmg contingent buildings, are dependent on many circumstances, 

 arrangement. ° . . 



but chiefly upon the locality, the number of horses for which 



accommodation is required, and the nature of their employment. 



Aspect is also a matter of some importance, but it does not 



affect the relative positions of the buildings in the yard, and 



cannot be considered an essential point, except for racers and 



brood-mares. In order to secure the most favourable aspect, 



stables are sometimes built with a door at either end, to be 



closed or left open according to the prevailing wind, and in 



large stables, doors are sometimes placed on all four sides ; a 



very good scheme in theory, but rarely compatible with the 



arrangements of a convenient plan. 



Administra- The administrative department, such as the residence of the 

 tive block. 



