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The Art of Landscape Gardening 



contrivance than a design for a palace, in which the 

 rooms may be so numerous that different apartments 

 may be provided for summer and for winter use; but 

 where compactness and economy are studied, some 

 contrivance is necessary to avail ourselves of views and 

 aspects, without sacrificing convenience and relative 

 fitness to the beauty of the prospect. 



Fig. 26. Ground-plan of Villa at BrenCry Hill. 



a. Breakfast-room ; i, drawing-room, opening, with folding doors, to a small library; c, eating- 

 room ; ii, kitcbcn ; f, kitcbcn court ; /, drying-ground ; g, part of the kitchen. garden ; ^, stable 

 court 



Under this restraint perhaps few houses have been 

 built with more attention to the situation and circum- 

 stances of the place than the villa at Brentry [Figs. 25 

 and 26]. The eating-room is to the north, with one 

 window towards the prospect, which may be opened or 

 shut out by Venetian blinds at pleasure. The break- 

 fast-room is towards the south, and the drawing-room 

 towards the prospect. 



Modern habits have altered the uses of a drawing- 



