BED ROOM
SATH
ROOM DRESSING
BATH
Taost
CLOSED
VERKNOWC ↑ SITTING AM
GALLERY
RECEP PARY OF
ROOM
SITTING
VERANSAN
VERANDAM
TERRACE
Aku:
PASSAGE
LOBBY
RECEPTION ROOM
FLAT
ROOF
BATH
LED NDOM
DRYING ROOM
AND STONE AM
FLAT
AOOF
PASSAGE
ROOM
AMAN
KED ROOM
AED ADOM
BATHE ABATH
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LAV
SERVANT
|AR COMOTIONING
"CLOAKS
PASSAGE
DINING ROOM
TERRACE
(Top) First floor plan. (Bottom)_(round floor plan.
SERVICE YARD
KITCHEN
UTILITY
CAR PARE
GARAGE
COVERED WAY
EVT.
SEYT
REST ROOM
SEYT
KIT.
SEVT
REST ROOM
HUM PASSAGE
SVT
SEVT
LANDRY
-REST
PASSAGE
house and at the same time retain- tains the garage and servants' quar- ception room, 23′ 4′′ by 31' 0"; this is ing a traditional feeling.
ters.
a finely proportioned room and ex- tends up through the two storeys of the building; at the upper level there
is
In the inside angle of the main Cars may approach right up to the wings is situated the principle stair- front door of the house, where there case, and on the outside angle the is a canopy to protect alighting or reception room is the dining room, a large gallery. Adjoining the dining room. In the east wing are ascending passengers; this canopy is which has semi-circular end walls in located the reception rooms on the supported at its outside end by two
plan; the unusual shape of this room ground floor and the master bedroom columns between which are pierced
forms a pleasant contrast to the suite on the first floor; in the west granite panels. Entrance to the
rectangular reception room. The wing are the service rooms on the building is up a short flight of granite ground floor and the secondary bed- steps to a porch, and through double dining table, which is 17' 8" long, rooms and service rooms on the first doors, flanked by windows having can seat 22 people. Doors from the floor. The secondary wing lies to the decorative grills, to a large lobby dining room lead to a terrace, half west of the main building at some Immediately opposite the entrance of which is covered, and this may be little distance from it but connected and entered from the lobby through used for alfresco meals during the with a covered way; this block con- double acting swing doors is the re- summer months.
Two photographs of the reception room.
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