PLANNING AND ARRANGEMENT. 1 3 



with a fodder-box and chaff-room. In the front towards the 

 street, in the floor above, are the stablemen's Hving and bed- 

 rooms, &c., with windows looking into the open space above 

 the stable, so that a view can be taken at any moment of the 

 whole of the stable on the upper floor. The area is lighted by 

 a continuous lantern, with lights to open upon centres, to 

 ensure good ventilation ; and gas is laid on for night." 



The size and general proportions of an ordinary stable may Dimensions 

 be pretty accurately arrived at from its cubic measurement, of stables, 

 which ought to give from iioo to 1500 cubic feet of air per 

 horse; a minimum width of 16 feet 6 inches, or from that to 

 18 feet, according to the arrangement of the plan (which may 

 be modified by the introduction of loose boxes), being sufficient 

 for a stable having a single row of stalls, as shown on Plates 

 4, 6, 8, 10, II, and 12. Taking the first-named width of 

 1 6 feet 6 inches, being 9 feet 6 inches from the wall to the 

 centre of the heel-post, and 7 feet for the passage, with a width 

 for each stall of 6 feet 2 inches from centre to centre of parti- 

 tions, and a height of 12 feet to the ceiling, a cubic contents of 

 1 2 2 1 feet per horse is obtained. For a stable containing a 

 double row of stalls having a ceiled roof and passage in the 

 centre, as much as 29 feet is sometimes allowed, as shown on 

 Plate 56. Taking 9 feet 6 inches for the stalls, 10 feet for the 

 passage, and 1 2 feet for the height, this gives a cubic capacity 

 of 1073 feet, scarcely sufficient if there were no opening in the 

 ceiling, which, in this case, utilises the space in the roof The 

 author considers that for ordinary horses, where a stable of 

 this kind is ceiled, a width of 28 feet and a height of 13 feet, 

 are the most desirable dimensions, giving a cubic contents of 

 II 2 2 feet per horse ; but that if open to the roof, as shown on 

 Plate 41, 27 feet in width is sufficient, being 8 feet for the 

 passage, and 9 feet 6 inches for the stalls on either side, with 

 a height of i o feet 6 inches to the underside of the tie-beam, or 

 springing of the roof This gives a cubic contents of 1260 feet ; 

 but this question is largely dependent on that of ventilation, 



