610 Design for Five Suburban Dwellings 



will be obtained when the library door is open, as the chimneypiece will 

 form a handsome object for terminating the vista along the passage, and the 

 pier-glass over it will reflect back the passage along its whole extent, up to 

 the niche and statue at the farther end. The windows are one at each end, 

 which will be found sufficient to light the whole room, notwithstanding its 

 great length, as they are very wide. Between the columns and the front 

 window is a door into the morning room or study {b). 



The left-hand portion of the transverse passage has a niche at the end for 

 the reception of a statue, and it conducts to the dining-room, staircase, 

 garden door, basement, &c. 



The dining-room {e) is 19 ft. by 14 ft., and consists of a square part lighted 

 by two windows, and an elliptical part on the entrance end having a large 

 window of painted glass at one end, and the door at the other ; the fireplace, 

 is in the centre of the flat side of the elliptical end, but formed so as to dis- 

 pense with a projecting chimney-breast, as that would interfere with the 

 simplicity of the curved form. The flue, which is 9 in. by 14 in., may be 

 carried up in the 18 in. wall, without any such addition ; and the projecting 

 jambs for receiving the grate need not be higher than the mantel-shelf, and 

 may be covered with marble, so as to form a bold chimneypiece. There are 

 two large niches on each side of the fireplace that will contain groups of 

 statuary, or articles of furniture. The elliptical portion of the room is to 

 have a domed ceiling, which will be separated from the flat ceiling of the 

 square part by an elliptical arch. The effect of this room will be novel, most 

 likely pleasing, and certainly very picturesque. The form is the result of 

 necessity, the difficulty being to arrange in any other manner the unequally- 

 sized and arranged windows. The sideboard can stand in the square part, 

 opposite the windows, which will leave room for a good large dining-table, 

 that may have the end nearest the fireplace semicircular. 



The staircase is to be of stone, and to have a massive metal balustrading. 

 It will be lighted by a skylight, and a window on each of the chamber floors. 

 Under the chief flight of stairs, there must be a descent of three steps to a 

 landing (/), where will be the staircase to the offices in the basement, and 

 the garden door entering into a covered porch, having the garden in front and 

 a water-closet on the left hand. 



The other houses have porticoes (g), each formed by two engaged and two 

 isolated antae, and approached by three steps that are between the antas, 

 and each portico serves as the entrance to two dwellings. The doors are 

 opposite the side intercolumniations, and in the centre and at each end of 

 the pronaos is a niche in the wall for the reception of a statue. All these 

 houses have the same accommodation. From the portico, the entrance is 

 into a hall (A) 16 ft. by 10 ft., communicating with the staircase and the 

 body of the house by an open archway, and with the garden porch (/c) by a 

 glazed door. The ceiling of the hall is groined, and has a large compartment 

 coved, within which is an ample skylight of the same form, indicated by the 

 inner oval dotted line. The fireplace is on the right hand in two of the 

 houses, and on the left hand in the other two. The staircase is of the same 

 kind as that described for the centre house, except that the ceiling imder the 

 landing is groined in the same manner as the entrance hall. (See the small 

 dotted oval in the plans.} Tlie doors into the principal rooms are from the 

 foot of the stairs. 



The dining-room is 16 ft. long and 15 ft. 6 in. wide ; it is lighted by two 

 windows in the side, looking into the garden, and has the fireplace at the end 

 opposite the door. 



The drawingroom (??z) is 25 ft. by 17 ft., lighted by three windows in the 

 side, and having the chimney-piece in the centre of one end, and a niche oppo- 

 site to it [overlooked by the engraver when reducing this small plan from 

 the large one]. There will be no occasion for chimney-breasts to any of the 

 rooms, as the fireplaces and flues may be all constructed in a manner similar to 

 those in the dining-room of the centre house. 



