44. 



Hunt 071 Picturesque Domestic Architecture. 



Some of the designs, for instance Plates I. Ill, IV. VI. VIII, IX. and XL 



are beautiful, and do credit to tlic pictorial taste of the architect; tiie 



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others, viz. II. V. VII. X. and 

 XII., are in what we consider 

 bad taste ; and we regret to 

 state that the ground plans of / 

 the whole are liable to the ob- 

 jections which we have ah'ead^ ^ 

 oiFered (Vol. III. p. 76.) to the ^t^ 

 plans of the designs in the Go- ^'-v 

 thic style by the same author. ^ ' 

 We shall proceed to give the ^j* 

 reasons for these opinions. 



PI. I. Summer House and 

 Gardener's Dwelling, (j'?^. 34.) 

 The elevation (a) is most ele- 

 gant ; but who that could af- 

 ford to keep a gardener and 

 build such a summer house (5), 

 would wish to limit his ser- 

 vant to two bare apartments. 

 (c d.) How easy to have 

 added other conveniences, (e 

 fghi k.) 



PI. II. A Garden Cottage, {fig.35.) The circular porch {a) is bad; first, 

 because it is too large for the building ; secondly, because, to preserve the 

 appearance of strength, the openings between the columns are much too 



wide for a circular plan ; a 

 t nird objection to this design 

 is, that there are two other 

 porches or porch-like places 

 {b c), and two lobbies {d e), 

 which is at least too much 

 of a good thing ; and the 

 last objection is the usual 

 one of the want of room 

 and conveniences. The sit- 

 ting-room(y) is sufficiently 

 large, but how are the fa- 

 mily that occupy this room 

 to sleep in one small bed- 

 room (g) ? and how very 

 inconsistent this accom- 

 modation with so many lob- 

 bies and porches. There 

 are, however, two small 

 closets here {h i), which is 

 something. 



PI. V. A Gardener's Cot- 

 tage, or Gate Lodge, and 

 PI. VII. an Orangery and 

 Garden Seat, are objection- 



~~ "' ' able on the second principle 



above mentioned, of the openings in the elevation being two wide for a 

 circul; r plan. This always gives the appearance of weakness, and never 

 was, ai d never will be, beautiful in any style of architecture, in any age, or 

 in any country. 



