The art of fair building represented in the figures of several uprights of houses, with their ground-plots, fitting for persons of several qualities : wherein is divided each room and office according to their most convenient occasion, with their heights, depths, lengths, and breadths according to proportion : with rules and directions for the placing of the doors, vvindows, chimnies, beds, stairs, and other conveniencies ... : also a description of the names and proportions of the members belonging to the framing of the timber-work, with directions and examples for the placing of them / by Pierre Le Muet ... ; published in English by Robert Pricke ...

The fourth Division of the nineth Place, of the same breadth of fifty seven feet, upon one hundred and twenty of depth.

THis fourth Division of the same space of fiftie seven feet in bredth, upon six score of depth, consisteth likewise in two bodies of a Building, the one on the front, the other on the Rear, the first having twenty two feet of depth upon the whole bredth, the which is divided into a stable, with a double Rank, of twenty two feet and an half; a Passage for the Coach of nine feet, a Kitchen of twentie three feet and an half; on the side of which is a Butterie of fourteen feet of bredth, upon seven∣teen of depth; and according to the depth of the said Butterie, is the stair-case of eighteen feet of depth, upon the same bredth of fourteen feet. This stair-case hath four Nuels or Spindles adorned with Ballisters or little pillars, and must have about three feet emptie with∣in the midst, for to afford it the more pleasantness. The Court must have thirty six feet of depth, upon fourtie one and an half of bredth, and from that they must ascend by four steps to the bottom of the stair-case.

The body of the building on the Rear, which is the principal, must have the same depth of twentie two Feet, upon the same bredth of fiftie seven Feet, and consisteth in an Hall of thir∣tie six Feet of bredth, and in a Chamber of nineteen Feet and an half, upon seventeen Feet and an half of depth, by reason of a passage of Four Feet, which is between the said Cham∣ber and the stair case; and within a corner of the passage shall be the privy. At the two corners of the Garden, joyning to the Hall and the Chamber, there must come forth two Closets of ten Feet of bredth, and there must be a descent at your choice, either from the Hall or the Chamber to the Garden, of four steps.