Mr Ware, writing in the middle of the eighteenth century, was only following in the footsteps of his eminent guides of thirty years earlier. Whether we look at the house designs of Inigo Jones through the eyes of Kent in 1727, or those of Gibbs through his own eyes in 1728, we find formal arrangements aiming at, and often achieving stateliness, but at much sacrifice of household comfort. Kent’s “Designs of Inigo Jones,” many of which probably owe their special characteristics as much to himself as to the great master, consist of a series of plates giving plans and elevations; an explanatory “Table” precedes them. The elucidatory matter is confined to a few lines, such as those to plate 15 of vol. ii. (Fig. 159). “The Plan of the first Story with the Elevation of the principal Front of a House, with an Arcade, standing on a Terras, about which is a Ballustrade. The Rooms of the Plan are 18 Feet high; those above ’em are 16 Feet high, except the Middle Room which comes over the Arcade to the Front, and includes the _Attic_ Story. The Windows of the _Attic_ Story are in the Frieze of the Entablature that encompasses the Building.” There are three points to be remarked here. First, the importance attached to the heights of the rooms. Secondly, that the “middle room” includes the attic storey; it became fashionable (at any rate in published plans) to have one large and lofty room, sometimes as much as 40 ft. high. Thirdly, that the windows of the attic storey are in the frieze of the entablature: this would allow a width of 3 or 4 ft., by a height which could only be measured in inches, for the windows of rooms of considerable area--a complete sacrifice of internal comfort for the sake of external effect. But no doubt, as such rooms were only “lodgings for servants,” they were considered good enough. Kent explains on another plate that the lodging rooms for servants “receive their light from the hall, whose top rises in a pavilion above the roof.” [Illustration: 160. Plan, Elevation, and Section of a House. _From Gibbs’s “Book of Architecture,”_ 1728.]