did he embody a whole piece of Dutch design into one of his own. But in his chimneys, his strap-work gables, and his turrets or lanterns he drew from Dutch sources. And there are two points to notice in this connection--one is that the strap-work gable occurs much oftener in his drawings than in houses actually built; the other is that had these gables been adopted as freely as the elevations would indicate, the houses would have been more Dutch than the Dutchmen's own buildings, for in the latter the stepped gable is far more frequent than strap-work, and produces an entirely different effect. [Illustration: PLATE LXXXIV. "SIR JARVIS CLIFTON'S HOUSE." (PAGES 65, 66.) 1. Hall. 2. Vestibule. 3. Parlour. 4. Lodging. 5. Grand Staircase. 6. Chapel. 7. Buttery. 8. Butler's Room. 9. Back Stairs. 10. Lodging. 11. Kitchen. 12. Dry Larder. 13. Wet Larder. 14. Bakehouse. 15. Open Arcade. 16. Gatehouse.] Let us, however, turn from these speculations to the drawings which compose the great bulk of the book--namely, the plans and (in some cases) elevations which show what kind of building an English house was intended to be, and which ought to be compared with the examples already given in Chapter III. The type of plan made familiar in those examples is the type on which nine-tenths of Thorpe's plans are based. The hall is the centre of household life, the parlour and family rooms are at one end of it, the kitchen and servants' rooms are at the other. But he has a certain number of plans in which the hall shows more or less signs of becoming an entrance rather than a living-room; the following examples show how the old type gradually changed into the new.