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COUNTRY INNS AND PUBLIC HOUSES. b87 1311 H43. Accommodation. The ground plan, fig. 1312, shows a tap-room, a, thirteen feet by twenty feet, with a porch to a skittle-ground behind ; a bar, b, with a counter separating it from the shop, or place for standing customers, c: dis the bar parlour for the master and mistress ; e, a company parlour, with a porch to a garden containing a bowling-green, quoit-ground, cricket-ground, swimming-pond, and baths ; J" is the kitchen ; and g, the pantry. The main entrance is at h ; the house yard and its offices are at i ; the skittle-ground and the garden for the tap-room company are at k ; and the gardens for the parlour company at I. Fig. 1313 is the plan of the chamber or one pair story, showing a club-room, m ; a waiting-room or bed-room, n ; a room for hats, great- coats, and other conveniences connected with the club, o ; and best bed-room, p. The basement story is similar in plan : in it, »i is a beer-cellar ; n, a store-cellar ; a, a coal-cellar ; and p, a spirit and wine-cellar. Fig. 1314 is the plan of the attics, showing three good bed-rooms with fireplaces and presses. Fig. 1 3 1 5 is a perspective view of the bar room, which is eleven feet six inches by ten feet, and ten feet high, with a fireplace for a stove on one side, a door opposite, and another door in the back as seen in the ground plan, fig. 1312, b. The view is taken looking towards the bar from the shop, c, and sup- posing the counter, fig. 1316, to be removed. In this view, a shows small casks for gin, brandy, rim, and other spirituous liquors simple or compound, holding from ten to twenty gallons each, for retail sale, chiefly in single glasses. The casks are supplied some- times from the bar-room by means of a small forcing-pump, or by a can called a jack, but more frequently through a trap-hole in the floor of the room above ; from which hole, a