The plan of the basement is given on p. 236; a is the kitchen, 18 feet square, the scullery b, was at the side, and the larder, c, at its side; d is the place for coals, a passage e, leads to the day room, f, for the children; g is either the cook’s room, or a sleeping room for a man servant; h is the passage up to the house, i is the dry larder, j is the butler’s pantry, with a strong room for holding plate; this was intended to be a sleeping room. k is the wine cellar, l the back staircase which went from the lower floor to the attic, m is the principal staircase, and n a place for stores. The roof of this lower building was to be formed with flat-girders, and brick and tile in cement, making a terrace-walk above; the chimneys were taken up from the lower building to the higher one, as shown in the side elevation by the dotted lines. The kitchen, and the whole of the basement, was to be paved with the best Seyssel asphalte. It is laid on a solid foundation, on a thickness of ground lime. The objection to the black and British asphalte for the interior of rooms, is that a fine dust rises from it, which in sweeping, affects the eyes of the occupants of the apartments.
Basement plan.
The plan of the building was not intended to be in the old style, but to be arranged, as far as possible, according to modern notions, without any great hall, or stone screen within it. A noble stone porch was
The ground plan.
placed in front, resembling slightly an ancient archway. The hall is 20 feet in length by 12 feet in breadth. The breakfast and eating rooms, b and c, 20 feet square, are on each side; both have bay
The first floor.
windows, with an exterior colonnade and terrace. The drawing-room, d, and the library e, are each 18 feet square; both have bay windows, and the angular window peculiar to the Elizabethan architecture. These windows open on to the terrace. f is the