A dictionary of architecture and building : biographical, historical, and descriptive . house described. Thus, in themansion last named, the chapel is built abovethe entrance gate, and on each side of it arerooms, both on the ground fioor and above;while opposite the entrance and across a court-yard larger in proportion to the greater size ofthe establishment rises the main house withthree staircase towers, each one connecting withrooms on three stories besides the garret. Hereagain there is a well in the court, and here alsopartly enclosed and covered galleries connectingthe front buildings w
A dictionary of architecture and building : biographical, historical, and descriptive . house described. Thus, in themansion last named, the chapel is built abovethe entrance gate, and on each side of it arerooms, both on the ground fioor and above;while opposite the entrance and across a court-yard larger in proportion to the greater size ofthe establishment rises the main house withthree staircase towers, each one connecting withrooms on three stories besides the garret. Hereagain there is a well in the court, and here alsopartly enclosed and covered galleries connectingthe front buildings with the rear ones; themain difference being that, as here the housewas V)uilt against the inner face of the citywall, the main rooms are lighted only orchiefly from the court, to which, there-fore, special pains was given to make itsunny and airy. (See, in atldition tothe references above, Ala; Antlron;Fauces ; Gallery ; Hall; (Ems ; Solar ;1 d 111 um , Vestibidum , and thet(_i Ills denoting modern subthvisions ofahouse) (Cuts, cols 433 434, 435,436 , 437, 43S , 439, 440 ) — R. Fk;. 8. — House in Bruges, c. 15G5. oinestic architecture throughout the The Gothic forms and details keep their hold c century Basement House. In New York and otherAmerican cities, a house of wliich the principalentrance is into the story below that of theprincipal drawing-rooms, as most common inLondon. There are assumed to be three kindsof these, viz. : — First, English Basement House, which type has been in use since 1840, but has never been very common. In this it is usual for an oflBce or reception room and the dining room to 432 HOUSE occupy the story of ontraiiLr, the kitclicii to boin tlie cellar or sub-basenieiit, and a cellar forthe furnace, fuel, stores, and the like, to occupythe space in front of the kitchen. The frontdoor of such a house was seldom more thanthree steps above the sidewalk. HOUSE story where the front door was contained onlythe same rooms as in the English Basement
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