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RURAL
ARCHITECTURE
I N T H E
GOTHICK TASTE.
BEING
Twenty New DESIGNS,
FOR
Temples, Garden-Seats, Summer-
Houfes, Lodges , Terminies ,
Piers, &*c.
O N
Sixteen COPPER PLATES.
WITH
Inftructions to Workmen, and Hints where
with moil Advantage to be erected.
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The Whole invented and drawn
By William and John Halfpenny.
Architects.
LONDON:
Printed for and fold by Robert Sayer, Map and
Printfeller, at the Golden Buck, oppofite Fetter-Lam,
Fleet-Jircet.
M DCGLII.
(3)
PLATE I.
HEWS the Plan and
Elevation of a Building*
wherein is a Cove Seat,
Sixteen Feet Diameter,
with other Conveniencies
as follow : A, the Floor,
B, a fmall Room, with a Chimney j C, a
Bog-Houie ; D, Stairs leading to a Room
eight Feet fquare over the Crown of the
Cove for Muficians, &c. the Floor is one
Step above the Surface, but if built on
Low Ground, it will appear much more
graceful to be elevated on a Subplinth
three or four Feet high, and afcended
to by Steps in Proportion.
PLATE
(4)
PLATE II.
Shews the Plan and Elevation of a Ter-
min.-Seat, Sixteen Feet wide in the Clear,
whofe Floor is elevated Four Feet Six
Inches above the Surface of the Earth, for
the feveral Proportions, fee the Scale.
PLATE III.
See A the Plan for a fmall Temple,
or Summer-houie, Ten Feet each Way
in the Clear j B fhews the Elevation -,
this Defign will be moft fuitable on an
Eminence in a rural Plantation. The
Defign C, is Eight Feet wide in the
Clear, and may be adapted to a Gateway,
-Garden Seat, &c.
PLATE IV.
Shews the Plan and Elevation of a fmall
Temple, Ten Feet each Way in the Clear ;
A the Steps ; B a Well-Hole 5 in the
groin'd or cov'd Ceiling open to the Cupola.
PLATE
( 5)
PLATE V.
Shews the Elevation of a Temple,
Twenty-two Feet wide in Front, lighted
from Windows in the Doom. This De-
fign is fuitable for an Eminence to be
{ten at a great Diftance, or for the Center
of a Wood, where its top can be (ten
above -the Trees.
PLATE VI.
Shews the Plan and Elevation of a
Temple, the Plan A is Eleven Feet each
Way in the Clear.
PLATE VII.
Shews another Plan, and Elevation of
a Temple ; its Plan A is Fourteen Feet by
Ten Feet in the Clear.
PLATE VIII.
Shews the Plan and Elevation of a Sum-
mer-houfe ; its Plan A is Twelve Feet
each Way in the Clear.
PLATE
( 6)
PLATE IX.
Shews the Plan and Elevation of a
Temple ; A the Steps ; B the Plan, 20
Feet each Way in the Clear ; the Brakes
are two Feet each, which makes the
whole Width 24 Feet.
PLATE X.
Shews the Plan and Elevation of a Sum-
mer-houie, elevated on a Pavement or green
Sod, and afcended to by Steps, or a Slope
of Grafs j A the Entrance; B the Plan.
10 Feet each Way in the Clear.
PLATE XL
Shews the Plan and Elevation of a
Lodge, or Houfe of Retirement, 78 Feet
in Front ; A Tarras ; BB Entrances ; C
Stair-Cafe 9 Feet wide ; D Parlour 17 Feet
by 1 5 Feet ; E Dining-room, 1 8 Feet by
16 Feet ; F Paflage ; GClofet, nine Feet by
nine ; H Study, 17 Feet by 15 Feet. A Bed-
clumber is intended over E, and one for
a Servant over F G, with a Pvoom above
lighted by a Semicircle Window, to be
come at by a fmall Stairs at the Side of tjie
Bed-Room.
PLATE
(7)
PLATE XII.
Shews the Plan and Elevation of a Lodge,
or Houfe of Retirement ; A the Front
Steps ; B B circular PafTage fix Feet wide ;
C Ditto Stairs, leading to the Bed-Cham-
bers, and up to the Gallery, or Gafeebo ;
H (fee Front 5) D Well-hole, E Back-
fteps ; F Parlour, 19 Feet by 15 Feet;
G Dining-room, 19 Feet by 15 Feet; fome
intended Bed-rooms over F and G, and
Garrets for Servants in the Roofs, with
proper Offices under F and G.
PLATE XIII.
Shews the Plan and Elevation of a fmall
Lodge, or Summer-houfe ; A Steps ; B
Hall, 8 Feet. 9 Inches by 6 Feet; C Break-
faft-room, 12 Feet by Seven,Feet ; D Wait-
ing-room and Stairs, 1 2 Feet by Seven Feet ;
E Great Room, 20 Feet by 14 Feet, and
two Stories high, F F Bow Windows, Five
Feet wide in the Clear.
' PLATE XIV.
Shews the Plan and Elevation of a fmall
Lodge, or a Summer-houfe ; A the Steps ;
B Hall, 14 Feet by 12 Feet ; C Stairs leading
to
( 8 )
to the Cupola ; H (fee Front) D Parlour, 18
Feet by 10 Feet; EE are each Eight Feet
Diameter ; F Bed-room, 18 Feet by 18 Feet;
GG Clofets, eight Feet Diameter. N. B. Pro-
per Offices are intended below, and Garrets
in the Roof for Servants Rooms, &c\
PLATE XV.
Shews the Plan and Elevation of a Sum-
mer-houfe ; A, Colonade, 26 Feet by 16
Feet* BB Rooms, 21 Feet by 14 Feet.
PLATE XVI.
Shews Four different Defigns for Ter-
minies or Piers ; for their feveral Propor-
tions, fee the Scale.
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