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CHAP. III. 

 BUILDINGS. 



SOME of the houses belonging to the proprietors of 

 large estates in this county, have long been famous as ob- 

 je£ls of the attention of travellers, and deservedlv so; for 

 there are very few counties that rival it in this respect: 

 the circumstance, however, is not interesting in an agricul- 

 tural inquiry. The well-cultivated domain is here of 

 much more consequence than the well-decoraced palace. 



In the species of building properly appropriated to an 

 Agricultural Report, greater exertions have, I believe, 

 been made in Norfolk than in any other county of the 

 kingdom. One landed proprietor, Air. Coke, has ex- 

 pended above one hundred thousand pounds in 

 farm-houses and offices ; very many of them eredled in a 

 style much superior to the houses usually assigned for the 

 residence of tenants ; and it gave me pleasure to find 

 all that I viewed, furnished by his farmers in a manner 

 somewhat proportioned to the costliness of the edifices. 

 When men can well afford such exertions, they are cer- 

 tainly commendable. 



One of Mr. Coke's barns at Holkham is built in a su- 

 perior style; 120 feet long, 30 broad, and 30 high, and 

 surrounded with sheds for 60 head of cattle: it is capitally 

 executed in white brick, and covered with fine blue 

 slate. 



At Syderstonc, he has built another enormous barn, 



with stables, cattle-^^heds, hog-sties, slicpherd's and bailiff's 



houses, surrounding a large (quadrangular yard, likewise 



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