320 liobinson's Designs for Oniameiital Fann-Buildings, 



No. V. is a 

 barn in the 

 Swiss style, the 

 elevation of 

 which, in per- 

 spective, is 

 very handsome 

 and very char- 

 acteristic, {fig. 



70.) '■'"^^L 



No. VI. is an ^^K^ 

 English mo- 

 nastic barn, more like a drawing from a ruin than an elevation to work 

 from ; and not much can be said in favour of No. VII., a sort of Dutch 

 barn with an Italian campanile at one end, the result of which is neither 

 character nor effect. 



No. VIII. a Swiss cow-house. Very poor. 



No. IX. a circular granary ; " the outline of which would remind the 

 traveller of the temple of Venus in the kingdom of Naples, on the coast of 

 Baia; the roof assuming the form of the temple of Vesta." 

 No. X. a rustic cow-house. Poor. 



No. XI. Rustic cattle-shed 

 [fig. 71.), we should think 

 hardly worth publishing. 

 No. XII. a rustic seat. 

 No. XIII. The plan of a 

 farmyard, such as is fre- 

 quently to be met with in 

 Northumberland and Berwick- 

 shire, but rarely in the south 

 of England. The plan of the 

 dwelling-house attached to it 

 is objectionable from having 

 the three fire-places of the 

 ground-floor in the exterior 

 walls. The barn, we think, 

 ought to have had a threshing machine j but the rest is good. Perspec- 

 tive elevations are given of the buildings in the old English, Swiss, and 

 Italian styles, which are very picturesque as sketches ; but we cannot 

 recommend them as architectural designs. 



No. XIV. Plan of a farm-house, without a pantry, dairy, or store- 

 closet of any kind. Two elevations, however, in the old English style, are 

 handsome and characteristic. 

 {fig. 72.) There is an ele- 

 vation also in the Swiss style, 

 and another in the Italian 

 manner. 



No. XXXIX. is a plate of 

 fences; and No. XL. of 

 rustic seats. 



No. XVII. is a Swiss mill 

 and bridge ; in which we 

 cannot but regret the bad 

 taste which introduced a mi- 

 serable line ofsix postSjleaning 

 as many diflferent ways, and joined by a crooked line of rails ; as if it were 

 the business of the architect to imitate vulgar and defective construction. 

 This design is introduced by the following remarks ; — « The mill has, at 



