Kent gives this as one of Inigo Jones’s own designs; it may be in reality Jones revised by Kent; but in any case the master’s reputation rests on surer ground. The illustration is offered not as a specimen of Inigo Jones’s work, but of what the early eighteenth century regarded as a suitable and elegant piece of domestic architecture. The attic storey, here starved of light, was a considerable trouble to designers. Its space was necessary in order to get sufficient accommodation, partly owing to the fact of the great room occupying two floors; and much ingenuity was brought to bear upon the problem of lighting it without overloading the elevation with windows. One method was this of squeezing them into the frieze. Another was to light it from the roof where hidden from observation. Another was to borrow light from the upper part of the central lofty room. This device is adopted in connection with the passages of Gibbs’s design in Fig. 160, which also gives a good idea of the manner in which the central hall was treated. Such lofty rooms as this hall, lighted from windows at their summit, and warmed (if they ever got warm) by a single fire, must have been much more magnificent than comfortable. In large houses vast rooms had their uses; they could be opened on state occasions and left for more homely apartments in the intervals; but both in Kent’s book and in Gibbs’s they occur in houses of moderate size, and could hardly have been left out of account in daily life. They go to show what importance was attached to state and dignity by every “person of quality.” Campbell’s designs were actuated by similar motives. In his “Vitruvius Britannicus,” published in 1717, he describes a small essay of his invention for the ingenious gentleman, Tobias Jenkyns, Esq. On the “first storey, extending 120 foot,” he says, “here is the double and single cube, the hall being 27 by 54; here is 18 by 27, which is the _sesqui altera_, and 21 by 27, the _sesqui tertia_, and you pass gradually from the larger to the lesser.” The front was to have “a rustic basement and two orders of pilasters in the theatrical, which admits of more gaiety than the temple or palatial style.”