The following are the details of the plan (fig. 2.): - House. a, Drawingroom. b, Entrance-hall. c, Ante-room. d, Library. e, Dining-room. f, Butler's pantry. g, Staircase. h, Passage. House and Stable Offices, &c. i, Dairy. k, Coal-house for the laundry. l, Potato-house. m, Laundry. n, Laundress's bed-room. o, Bin for wood. p p, Privies. q, Dust-bin. r, Pump. s, Knife-house. t, Footman's room. u, Machine-room for the organ. v, Drying-ground. w, Stable-yard. x, Stable. y, Hay-loft. z, Harness-room. 1, Groom's room. 2, 3, Carriage-houses. 4, Coal-house, &c., for the coachman. 5, Tool-house. 6, Privy. 7, Border for fruit trees. 8, Cistern. 9, Dung-pit. 10, Potting-shed. Frame-Ground. 11, Green-house. 12, Vinery. 13, Furnace. 14, 15, Peach-houses. 16, Pinery. 17, Furnace. 18, Coal-bin. 19, Succession pine-pit. 20, Place for green-house plants in summer. 21, Flower-beds. 22, 23, Cisterns. Pleasure-Grounds. 24, Main entrance. 25, Servants' entrance, both for the house and gardens. 26, Three circular masses; one of hardy heaths, another of hardy azaleas, and the third of China roses, varied by substituting other low flowering shrubs every three or four years. 27 27, Large cedars of Lebanon, one of which is 65 ft. high. (See Arb. Brit., vol. iv. p. 2426.) Large tulip tree. This tree, in 1834, had been planted 80 years. It was then 70 ft. high, with a head 49 ft. in diameter, and the diameter of the trunk 3 ft. 10 in. There is only one tulip tree higher than this in the neighbourhood of London, which is at Syon, and is 76 ft. high. (See Arb. Brit. vol. i. p. 289.) Oriental plane; probably the finest specimen in the neighbourhood of London. In 1834, when measured for the Arb. Brit., it was 80 years old, 77 ft. high, the diameter of the head 90 ft., and of the trunk 4 ft. 4 in. (See Arb. Brit., vol. iv. p. 2042.) 30, Place for garden rubbish. 31, Mass of rhododendrons. Groups of peat-earth low shrubs, fuchsias, pelargoniums, &c. Rosarium. 34, China roses. Circular beds of hydrangea, heliotrope, China roses, &c. Private door to the back lane, opposite to which, on the other side of the lane, is another door, opening into a private walk to the farmyard, grass field, and kitchen-garden. Fig. 3. is the ground plan of the farmyard, and part of the kitchen-garden and grass fields, separated from the pleasure-grounds by a narrow public lane. The details of this plan are as follows: - a, Private entrance to the farmyard. b, Cart entrance to the farmyard. c, Barn. d, Gardener's house. e, Place for fattening poultry. f, Open shed. g g, Cart-horse stable and cow-house. h h, Cart-shed and tool-house. i, Dung-pit. k, Pigsties and privy. l, Poultry-house. m, Part of the kitchen-garden. n, Part of the grass field.
