IN THE ITALIAN STYLE.DESIGN No. 13.
PERSPECTIVE VIEW,—PLATE XXVII.FRONT ELEVATION,—PLATE XXVIII.SIDE ELEVATION,—PLATE XXIX.TWO PLANS, —PLATE XXX.
By comparing the plan of this house with those of Nos. 9 and 11, it willbe perceived, that much as they differ in regard to various other parti-culars, they all three bear a general resemblance to each other, in theposition and relative proportions of the principal rooms. Far frombeing occasioned by any difficulty of producing greater variety, or byinattention to the circumstance itself, this similarity has been adheredto, with the view of showing, how the same internal accommodation maybe obtained, where there are many minor differences, and where differ-ent styles are adopted.
In each of these plans, it will be observed, there is a drawing room,dining room, and library, with an ante-room between the two former;but in No. 9, the library is placed beyond the ante-room, into which allthe other three open, while there is no immediate communicationbetween the library and the drawing room as in this design, and No. 11.Both the latter have the library adjoining the hall, and opening into thedrawing room: and the chief difference between the two plans, as regardsthis portion of the house, is that in the present design there is noconservatory, and in No. 11 there is. They will, likewise, be foundvery closely to resemble each other in the relative position of doors,windows, fire-places, and sideboard recesses; also in having a porch,and a kind of small intermediate vestibule between that and the hall.In No. 9, on the contrary, there is no porch, properly speaking,—atleast not an inclosed one, but what rather answers to the idea of aviranda. The same design again, differs from the others in the follow-ing particular: instead of extending cross-wise to the drawing room, the