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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 7

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No. 6 [fig. 102], has wings, not in the same line with the house, but receding from it, which, of course, destroy the symmetry proposed by wings, unless the whole be viewed from one particular point in the centre; of this form are MERLEY, NEWTON PARK, NORMANTON, LATHOM HOUSE, &c. The houses built by Paine and Leadbeter are frequent instances of want of comfort in the two latter forms.