It now remains for me to shew that I have not suggested a design more expensive than a house of any other character, containing the same number of apartments. The chief difficulty of building arises from the want of materials: a house of Portland stone would be very expensive; a red brick house, as Mr. Brown used to say, 'puts the whole valley in a fever;' a house of yellow brick is little better; and the great Lord Mansfield often declared, that had the front of Kenwood been originally covered with Parian marble, he should have found it less expensive than stucco. Yet one of these must be used in any building except a castle; but for this the rude stone of the country, lined with bricks, or faced with battens, will answer every purpose; because the enrichments are few, except to the battlements and the entrance tower, which are surely far less expensive than a Grecian portico.
