. Domestic architecture, being a series of designs, for mansions, villas, rectory houses, parsonage houses, bailiff's lodge, gardener's lodge, game-keeper's lodge, park-gate lodges, etc., in the Grecian, Italian, and old English style of architecture : with observations on the appropriate choice of site, the whole designed with strict reference to the practicability of erection, and with due attention to the important consideration of uniting elegance, convenience and domestic comfort with economy, the whole being the result of upwards of thirty years professional experience : with accurate es
. Domestic architecture, being a series of designs, for mansions, villas, rectory houses, parsonage houses, bailiff's lodge, gardener's lodge, game-keeper's lodge, park-gate lodges, etc., in the Grecian, Italian, and old English style of architecture : with observations on the appropriate choice of site, the whole designed with strict reference to the practicability of erection, and with due attention to the important consideration of uniting elegance, convenience and domestic comfort with economy, the whole being the result of upwards of thirty years professional experience : with accurate estimates appended to each design. ocongenial, as that of the character in question, taking care that it be in ahealthful soil. A site below high grounds, being above floods, and sufficiently dry, ismore suitable for a constant residence, being less exposed to the incle-mency of our climate, and embracing more intimately our cherishednotions of social comfort. Indeed, such a site, if well selected, isdecidedly more compatible with all that is associated with the hospitableand picturesque domicile of olden times. In mountain regions, amidst or upon bold eminences, the bold castel-lated style corresponds with the character of the surrounding scenery:but the family domicile, abstractedly considered to be the seat of peaceand comfort, best accords with the characteristic tranquillity of a lowlandscene. Every poet, and every painter, depicts domestic enjoyment as theoffspring of the valley. The estimate for this Gothic Mansion, if erected with hrick, and stuccoed £ if executed in stone ......... £9360. vol. i. p 2.
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