pretentious on the one hand, nor mean and makeshift on the other. The elevation follows the usual simple lines mentioned above. [Illustration: 168. Fenton House, Hampstead. Ground Plan.] It is seldom that these houses are dated, and they have not been considered of sufficient importance for any one to record the year of their building; it is therefore not possible to place the examples here illustrated in chronological order, except in the case of the house at Burwash in Sussex (Fig. 170), which bears the date 1699 in a plaster panel on the soffit of the hood over the front door. Two features which agree with the date, and place it earlier than the other examples, are the wood mullioned windows and the panelled chimneys. The next three illustrations (Figs. 171, 172, 173) were probably all built during the first quarter of the eighteenth century. They have sash windows of which the wood casing forms a broad white margin to the opening. One has architraves to its windows, one merely key-stones by way of ornament, and one has no relief of this kind. Varieties such as these, unpretending as they are, impart a certain amount of character. The remaining two examples (Figs. 174, 175) date from towards the end of the century. They show how formal and spiritless house design was growing. The absence of a wide overhanging cornice seems to deprive them of half their character. On the other hand, they are too simple and unpretentious to excite that active dislike which some of the more laboured houses of yet later times arouses. [Illustration: 169. Fenton House, Hampstead. Side Elevation.] [Illustration: 170. “Roppynden,” Burwash, Sussex (1699).] [Illustration: 171. The Rectory House, Burford, Oxfordshire.] [Illustration: 172. House at Horsham, Sussex.] [Illustration: 173. Heale House, Middle Woodford, near Salisbury.] [Illustration: 174. House at Faversham (late 18th cent.).] [Illustration: 175. House at Colchester (late 18th cent.).] [Illustration: 176. Drayton House, Northamptonshire. Gates in the Side of Fore-court (_cir._ 1700).] [Illustration: 177. Drayton House. Gates at the End of the West Avenue (_cir._ 1700).]