London : Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longman · leaf 326
e street either the sides of the house itself, or thewalls of the court attached to it. Their plans were regular, therooms being usually arranged round an open area, or on eachside of a long passage, to which an entrance-court led from thestreet. The court was an empty space, considerably larger… … T i from without. (See Jig. 101.) A court is frequently common toseveral houses; and, again, some of the large mansions stooddetached, and had the advantage ofseveral doors of entrance, on two orthree different sides. They had a por-tico, or porch, before the front door(janua), supported on two…
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