A SUBURBAN STABLE

[Illustration: FIG. 56—A suburban stable.]

[Illustration: FIG. 57—Ground plan.]

The smaller stable, designed for a modest suburban residence, or

country summer home, gives space for a pair of horses and three or four

cows. It is planned to be built fifty-three feet long by thirty-three

feet wide, the end being planned to be the front, with a drive-way

onto the main floor in the front. The hay is pitched into the storage

loft through a trap-door in the ceiling, or, as some might prefer,

a hay-door could be set in place of the window over the drive-way

doors. The dormer windows and ornamental cupola combine with the

copper sheathing effect of the Paroid-covered roof to make a most

attractive stable building and at comparatively moderate cost. If it

was desired this plan could be altered to give a more roomy hay-loft

by adding either two or three feet to the length of the posts, and

correspondingly flattening the roof, carrying the dormers very nearly

out to the eaves. The added height of the posts could be added to the

height of the stable, keeping the roofs as steep as at present, if

preferred, but it is one of the many advantages of Paroid covering for

a roof that the roof need have but slight pitch, when a shallow pitch

is desired. The ground plan can be arranged differently; an improvement

might be to place the harness room where a calf-pen is indicated,

making the space gained into a clothes and wash-room for the stableman.