caretaker's apartments, the kitchen of which directly opens into the larger recreation-room

the caretaker's apartments, the kitchen of which directly opens into the larger recreation-room. This, the top floor, is evidently to some extent a makeshift plan, as very frequently happens in public buildings, and the caretaker comes off badly in consequence. He is only given two bedrooms, and these are quite small and open out of one another, an arrangement which renders it impossible for a man with a family to be put in charge of the building. noticed, is repeated throughout the whole of the building, as shown in Figs, i, 2, and 3. Opposite the main outer doors there are swing doors opening into a large reception-room lighted from areas on either side of the staircase ; and beyond this reception-hall, again separated from it by movable screens, is what is called the " small hall," which is, however, large enough for a numerous audience, or could be utilised in conjunction with the reception-hall for many other Passing downwards, Fig. 4 illustrates the ground floor, and two small mezzanines which lie between the ground floor and first-floor levels at the back. It is on this floor where the arrangement at the entrance is most clearly seen, with its wide open space outside the main doors from which two porter's offices open on right and left, and beyond it a handsome hall, out of which on either side winds a large staircase planned so as not to obstruct the central passage way in the very slightest
degree, an arrangement which, it will have been purposes, such as bazaars though the means by
which it is lighted other than artificially are not particularly obvious, owing to its being covered by the larger hall on the upper floor. It is seated with a rising gallery at the back, of segmental form, opposite to a platform of some considerable size, this arrange- ment beingsomtwhat obscured on the plan, as illustrated, by the arrangement of the girders to carry the floor
above being shown in dotted lines.