Central portico

If the centre of a building be marked by a portico, or such a visible entrance as invites the stranger to approach it, some impediment, or obstruction, becomes necessary to counteract the habitual respect for symmetry, and prevent our inclination to drive up to a door which is no longer the principal entrance; and this requires a fence, to indicate that it is the garden front, and not the entrance front. As this is a subject which will be explained farther, I shall, for the present, only mention, that the hint at D and F [fig. 154, p. 412] describes the different styles of fences requisite for Grecian and Gothic mansions.