The side elevation.
school room, or a boudoir. There is a large conservatory on the principal landing of staircase, and a closet leading out of it. A good-sized aquarium with a regular supply of water could be easily arranged in the centre of the conservatory. The attic plan contains three large rooms for servants, and the tower room was to be used as a smoking room, or as a play room for the children.
The basement contains a private breakfast or dining room, T, with a large store closet, having an opening one foot in height filled with perforated zinc opposite
Half elevation of small library.
the window of the passage; N is the housekeeper’s or servants’ hall; B the kitchen 23 feet by 18 feet, with G the scullery behind, H, H, the larders, S position for a lift, and L a place for coals. The basement stairs should have been on the side adjoining kitchen.
It is a difficult thing in this class of house to confine the smell of the cooking to the kitchen. An endeavour was made here to effect it. The kitchen had no direct entrance to the body of the house, the servants going through the passage, by the side of the area, from which it was well ventilated, to get to the common staircase. This had a window at the top, not shown in the plan. The small section on page 197 shows
