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In the chamber plan, provision is made for bed-rooms of
various sizes, with closets, but not very large dressing-rooms;
and the number of bed-rooms, including those in the present
old building, and some in the roof over the new part, will be
sufficient for all the purposes of convenience or magnificence,
as far as the first leading principle of economy will allow. But
should it hereafter be deemed advisable to extend the plan, a
provision may be made in the wall to the north (by changing
the position of the butler's pantry, &c.) to communicate with a
billiard- room, library, or any other rooms which may be re-
quired.
The offices contain every thing necessary to a house of this
kind, connected with each other by passages of communication,
with sufficient cellars, &c.
GROUND ABOUT THE HOUSE.
It may perhaps be observed by the trim imitators of Brown's
defects, that the stables, barns, gardens, and other append-
ages, ought to be removed to a distance. I have, in my former.
volume, endeavoured to shew the folly of expecting importance
in buildings without extent of appendages; and the absurdity
of banishing to a distance those objects which are necessary to
the comfort of a country residence. There is one point on
which I believe my opinion may differ from the theory of the
ingenious Author of The Landscape; at least so far as I have
been told he has endeavoured to reduce it to practice near the
house at Downton. I fully agree with him in condemning that