The shooting or hunting box is a small villa

1577. The shooting or hunting box is a small villa in a sporting country, adapted merely for a residence during the shooting season, which requires very little garden to be attached to it, and generally it has no pleasure-grounds. Speaking of residences of this kind, Marshall observes, 'a suite of paddocks should be seen from the house, and if a view of distant covers can be caught, the background will be complete. The stable, the kennel, and the leaping-bar, are the appendages in the construction of which simplicity, substantialness, and conveniency should prevail.'