ABSTRACT
The common houses in London are all built in one way, and that so familiar that it will need little instruction, nor deserve much illustration. The general custom is to make two rooms and a light closet on a floor, and if there be any little opening behind, to pave it. In common houses the fore-parlour is the best room upon the ground-floor: the passage cuts off a good deal from this, and from the back parlour; this usually running strait into the opening, or garden as it is called, behind; but it is a much better practice to make the back parlour the better room. Conveniencies of all kinds are no where so much wanted as in London houses, nor is there any where so little room for them: it is therefore a very proper thing to consider how to add to them.
