The Architectural magazine . own. — W. H. London, AUSTRALIA. I have to thank you for Part. I. of your Encyclopcedia of Cottage Architec-ture, sent to me through the medium of the editor of the Sydney Gazette. Youwill think it strange, but the admirable arrangements that it describes do notseem at all suited to our colony : not only the climate, but the habits of thepeople, the servants, and the mode of living peculiar to a new country, seemto militate against those refinements that even in an old country cannot beeasily introduced. We require refinements of a different description;
The Architectural magazine . own. — W. H. London, AUSTRALIA. I have to thank you for Part. I. of your Encyclopcedia of Cottage Architec-ture, sent to me through the medium of the editor of the Sydney Gazette. Youwill think it strange, but the admirable arrangements that it describes do notseem at all suited to our colony : not only the climate, but the habits of thepeople, the servants, and the mode of living peculiar to a new country, seemto militate against those refinements that even in an old country cannot beeasily introduced. We require refinements of a different description; and Inever take up a work on any of the countries bordering the Mediterranean,but I observe many little things, the results of experience, that might be in-troduced here with advantage. Could you not devote some papers in theArchitectural Magazine to the architectural arrangements suitable to our colony,pointing out the different styles of building and interior distribution used in c c 4 376 Foreign Notices — 6 the domestic architecture of Spain, Italy, Barbary, and Syria ? Such paperswould be very useful to us, though they might perhaps be profitless to you. I send you a sketch of a design for a cottage (fg. 201.), which my father-in-law intends building near Sydney. The ground plan was given to me byMl. Lewis, with whom, I believe, you are acquainted. The house is to be an exact square, and only one story high; the cellar isto be under the drawingroom, with stairs from the storeroom leading to dressing-rooms and the storeroom are taken out of the veranda. Theground foils to the north-west. The kitchen-garden (a) and the paddock (fj) Domestic Notices:—England. 377 o are already formed; c is the entrance road; d, a back road to the vineyardand the woods; e is a private road to the stable-yard and offices; f, walks onthe lawn ; g, the veranda, under which is the main entrance to the house; A,dining-parlour; i, drawingroom; k k k, bedrooms; / /, dressing
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