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and carriage, having direct access to the stable, coach-house, 

 and harness-room ; and by means of a passage to a loose box, 

 entirely shut off by a 9-inch wall, carried up to the roof. The 

 coach-house is closed to the washer's room by revolving 

 shutters, and the stable and harness-room on either side by 

 ordinary doors. The hay and corn store is reached from 

 this central room, and has a pair of sliding doors over the 

 entrance gateway. The stable and loose box have a south- 

 western aspect. This plan may be varied on the upper floor 

 to provide a sleeping-room for the groom ; and the coach- 

 house could be also carried up to afford additional accommo- 

 dation if required. The whole is inclosed within the entrance 

 gates. 

 Stables on Owing to the value of land in towns, the plan referred to in 



upper floors. ^^ preceding chapter of having stables on upper floors is now 

 becoming very general, and is a good substitute for the limited 

 accommodation obtained in a mews, especially as regards the 

 position of loose boxes. In such a structure the ground floor 

 can be devoted to coach-houses, with a central yard, ap- 

 proached through an archway, from which the upper floors 

 are reached by the necessary slopes, provisions being made on 

 each floor for the corn-stores, harness-room, washing-boxes, 

 &c., with an asphalted yard, and dwelling for the grooms upon 

 the roof. The stables in such a building can be well lighted 

 and ventilated from the roadway, and from the yard. Those 

 designed for Messrs. Crosse and Blackwell by the late R. C. 

 Roumieu, and illustrated on Plate 54, are thus described in 

 the Builder of April 15th, 1876: — "These premises have a 

 central open space (the height from the floor to ridge being 

 40 feet), round which, on the ground floor, are recesses for 

 eighteen vans and stabling for four horses, with store spaces 

 for straw and fodder, harness-rooms, and a yard for dung, 

 water-closets, &c., with a double inclined plane of an easy 

 ascent to the principal stable floor. On the stable floor are 

 stalls for thirty-five horses, and a loose box for a sick horse, 



