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SITE OF THE HOUSI.
avowed and praiseworthy example of candour and good sense
to every architectural amateur.
It is wholly impossible to devise rules that shall be universally
applicable to every site, character, and circumstance of a place,
but, as hints for due consideration, there are some so useful
towards forming the general plan, that they ought not to be
omitted. Foremost amongst which are those for the
SITUATION OF THE HOUSE.
The site for the house itself must evidently have the lead of
every other part, and too great care cannot be taken that it shall
be well placed upon the ground by which is meant that it shall
command all the advantages that the spot itself is capable of
affording, with such others as are to be obtained by views,
openings, or shelter from the adjacent country, and from apart-
mnents so situated as also to receive the highest possible benefit
of aspect; the mansion having free and well regulated conI-
nexion with its offices and gardens. A supply of water and the
means of quick and ample drainage from all these, are no less
important considerations; and indeed, amongst the wise eccle-
siastic builders in our own country, and with the architects of
Rome and Italy, it was the first.
If the quantity of ground be but of moderate extent, unless
very small indeed, it is evident that it would be generally inju-
diciolls to place the house in the middle of the property,
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becauise its situation being nearly equi-distant froin its boundary,
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