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Book: Observations on the Theory and Practice of Landscape Gardening, 1803
Chapter: Chapter XII. Architecture and Gardening inseparable

Architectural site planning 2

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No. 2 [fig. 98]. Houses of the next form I consider as of later date, although, from the various subsequent alterations, it is difficult to define their original shapes: they seem to have had one side of the quadrangle opened, and thus the line of communication being cut off, this sort of house becomes less commodious in proportion to the length of its projecting sides. Of this description were COBHAM HALL and CASHIOBURY, to both which have been judiciously added square courts of offices, under the direction of Mr. James Wyatt.