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grounds and the public rooms. In that case the drawing- 

 room front will receive the chief attention of the ar- 

 chitect. In some of the best laid-out villa residences 

 that we have seen, the main door faces an adjacent boun- 

 dary wall of considerable height, and is separated from 

 it merely by a gravelled court of sufficient extent to 

 afford room for the turning of a carriage. In other well- 

 constructed places this court is wanting, and its place is 

 occupied with flower-beds and shrubberies, with a covered 

 way communicating with the main door at one end, and 

 with the entrance gate in the boundary waU at the other. 

 Of course, in this arrangement, carriages are left on the 

 outside altogether. A small door at the end of the 

 house opening on a back court or road between the 

 kitchen and stable offices is used when it is needftd to 

 bring a carriage close to the house. A kitchen court 

 should be formed at one end or side of the house ; and if 

 this is the only court that is necessary, and the house is 

 near enough to the boundary, it may be brought out to 

 the external wall. When stables are required, they may 

 be placed in connection with the kitchen court, or if 

 there be room and access, they may be built at a little 

 distance along the boundary wall, with a separate en- 

 trance, for example, in a corner of the property. The 

 respective positions of these courts must vary with that 

 of the house itself in reference to the other parts of the 

 residence ; but they should never occupy more than one 

 end or side of the house, and should leave the remainder 

 of it to be surrounded by the ornamental grounds. To 

 these apparently minor points we sohcit the reader^ s 

 earnest attention, as success in these arrangements, 

 which are very apt to be overlooked at first, has a most 

 material effect on the general result. 



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