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CHAPTER III.

Buildings.

HOUSES OF PROPRIETORS, FARM HOUSES, COTTAGES, &C

FEW counties, for their size, contain more seats of noblemen and gentlemen; a description of which, in an agricultural treatise, cannot be expected.

As many gentlemen keep a good deal of land in their own hands, they, as well as many substantial farmers who occupy their own, have made themselves extremely good farming coveniencies, so that in this respect, there may be said to be a very great improvement of late years. Several of the latter have indeed built themselves dwelling houses, much beyond the idea of farm houses in the laft age. Farm houses and offices are in general not very spacious, and in most parts of the country, excefit in new inclosures,* situate chiefly in the villages, and not contiguous to the land. Houses and barns generally,(except in the ftrip of country adjoining to Derbyshire, where there is plenty of stone, which is applied to that purpose) are of brick, and tiled, sometimes thatched. Poor cottages and barns, in the clay country, now-and then of stud and mud; but new buildings of all sorts are universally of brick and tile.

* As a remarkable instance of this, Jonathan Ackom, Esq. of Wiseton, enthe inclosure of Wiseton, Mattersey, Everton, Misson, and Scrooby, pur- sued the plan of placing new farms central to the respeétive grounds, and com-. pleted seven, with large appurtenances, dove cotes, granaries, cow-houses,&&¢. The same has been done more or less in other new inclogures.