10 STABLE BUILDING AND STABLE FITTING. 



Design No. 4. 

 Stables for 

 hunters. 



Design No. 5. 



Suburban 



stables. 



Designs Nos. 

 6 and 7. 

 Town and 

 country 

 stables. 

 Difficulties 

 in town. 



the building. The hay and corn is stored and mixed over the 

 harness-room, and discharged by a shoot into the washer's 

 room. 



On Plate 7, which shows some stabling designed for hunters, 

 it will be seen that the corn-store and hay-loft are over the 

 mixing-room and archway, with a couple of rooms for the men 

 above the harness-room. The ground plan of this design is 

 that of Mr. Walsh, better known as " Stonehenge." 



The Design No. 5^ providing for a pair of horses only 

 (shown on Plates 8 and 9), is more especially suited for the 

 suburbs, for the country, or for any site where the length of the 

 frontage is not so much a consideration as it usually is in 

 towns, and where space sufficient for ventilation and light is 

 available in the rear; but as this particular design is also 

 ventilated in the roof and lighted in the front, it may be 

 adapted to a mews, or where there is no area at the back, 

 although the frontage, 40 feet, is in excess of what is usually 

 allowed for this situation. The stable, harness-room, and 

 coach-house, are entered from an ante, open to the yard by an 

 elliptic arch; a staircase from the harness-room leading to 

 the corn-store and hay-loft above it, from which a shoot 

 descends with the food, whence it is removed to a bin in the 

 stable, as shown on Plate 9. Suburban stables, however, of 

 limited accommodation, having stalls for only two or three 

 horses, are most frequently built at the side of the house, and 

 approached from the road. 



The Designs Nos. 6 and 7 (Plates 10 and 11), more 

 especially illustrate the difference in the arrangement of town 

 and country stables. In town the cost of land restricts the areas, 

 and also reduces the frontages of stables. This, together with 

 the rights of the adjoining properties and the necessary Acts 

 of Parliament, do not leave the architect the same scope for the 

 arrangement of his plan as he possesses in the country, or even 

 in the suburbs. In the latter case, where perhaps only one or 

 two horses are kept, the stabling can be built in a small inclosed 



