The Lodge contains a family living room, with two bay windows, soplaced as to command views of the road both within and without thepark. Beyond this is a small kitchen or washhouse, and above stairs arethree bed chambers. A closet may be obtained beneath the stairs, andthese latter are so situated, as to leave a considerable space between theouter door and that of the living room, a circumstance that although notattended to in cottages, would be found to conduce very materially towarmth and cleanliness, as well as to comfort in other respects.
By a little extension of this plan—cutting off a passage from what ishere the kitchen, and building out another room, with a chamber aboveit, in that direction, it might be rendered a superior kind of cottage,where only one sitting room is required; especially if a porch were addedto the passage so cut off, making the entrance there, and convertingwhat is now the entrance, into either a book closet or store room.