9. Stairs.
10. Open Space.
11. Terrace.
One other plan is given (Fig. [231]) as an example of Thorpe's ingenuity in planning. It consists of three rooms arranged within a circular balustrade and surrounded by a circular terrace. The angles formed where the three rooms join are occupied by three towers, one of which contains the porch, the other two the staircases. On the ground floor one of the rooms is the hall, one the parlour, one a bedchamber. The kitchen was to be under the hall. It should be observed how the large fireplaces are arranged so as to occupy some of the triangular space enclosed by the three rooms; and how the odd corners left are devoted to the buttery, a closet, and a wood store. The bay window is different in each room, and is so planned as just to extend outwards as far as the surrounding balustrade. Having thus examined the main features of the design, observe how a number of alternative sketches have been made for filling in with cupboards the angles made by the circular walls of the turrets and the walls of the rooms: observe also that on one of the circular staircases an equilateral triangle has been drawn, evidently as an alternative way of treating the turrets, and observe further how in the parlour and bedchamber a suggestion is made to have a semicircular recess at one end, such as was not infrequent late in the seventeenth century, but which never occurs in an Elizabethan plan. All these points are interesting, because they show how the draughtsman elaborated his design; and when he had finished this, he sketched a variation of the same idea at the side, in the upper part of the sheet. He was also undecided about the position of his steps on to the terrace, for he drew them first in three sets, opposite to the three bay windows; afterwards he sketched another set in pencil (shown by dotted lines on the drawing) in a more convenient situation just opposite the porch, and wrote on the old set "Stayres heare," and on the new "or heare." On his main staircases, too, after drawing the steps, he has crossed out three or four and written "half-pace," which means "half-landing."
It will not be uninteresting to add to these illustrations of Thorpe's plans a list of the names of apartments, &c., to be found in his book appended to one or other of the drawings.
| Hall. | Lodging. |
| Parlour. | A nobleman's lodging, |
| Dining parlour. | comprising |
| Dining chamber above hall. | His ante-camera. |
| The dining chamber. | Bedchamber. |
| Winter parlour. | Wood, coal, and privy. |
| An ordinary winter parlour. | Servants' lodging. |
| The great parlour with the | Officers' lodgings. |
| great chamber over it. | A bed chamber. |
| Great chamber. | An inner chamber. |
| Gallery. | Chaplin. |
| The long gallery. | His study. |
| Withdrawing chamber. | Study. |
| Chapel. | Waiters' bedchamber. |
| Outward chapel. | Steward's lodging. |
| Library above. | His clerk. |
| Buttery. | Brush. |
| Butler's lodging. | Wood, coal, and stool. |
| Pantry. | Cellar. |
| Pantler's lodging. | Wine cellar. |
| Breakfast room. | A wine cellar and for beer. |
| Kitchen. | Privy wine cellar. |
| The great kitchen. | The Queen's wine cellar. |
| A privy kitchen. | My lord's wine cellar. |
| Dry larder. | A cellar for beer. |
| Wet larder. | Entry. |
| Pastry. | An entry through all. |
| Work room for the pastlers. | Lobby. |
| Bakehouse. | Ante-camera. |
| Privy bakehouse. | Closet. |
| Meal house. | A well light. |
| Bolting house. | A little court for light, &c. |
| Survaying place. | Common vault. |
| Scullery. | Court. |
| Spicery. | A tennis court. |
| Trencher. | A large terrace. |
| Pewter. | Terrace. |
| Milk house. | A back walk. |
| Brew house. | Garden. |
| The boiling house. | Orchard. |
| Porter's lodging. | Woodyard. |
| Hynds' hall. | Kitchen garden. |
| Lesser hall for hynds. | Washyard. |
| Servants' dining-room. | Stable. |
| Waiters' chamber. |
CHAPTER XII.
ARCHITECTURAL DESIGNERS OF THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY.
In the foregoing pages examples have been given of the architectural work of the sixteenth century—examples taken from all parts of England, and illustrating all kinds of features. From these it will have been gathered that the same general character pervaded the whole country at any one time, but that there was a great variety of treatment. This variety arose not merely from a difference in arrangement of universally accepted features, or from different methods of handling the same kind of ornament, but from actual differences between the features themselves and between the kinds of ornament, and it points to the employment of men who varied to a considerable degree in the amount of their training as well as in its direction.