es are detached in separate masses,
or concealed, or placed in a basement story; and only the body of the
house remains, either as a solid mass or enclosing small courts: this
disposition does not differ from the most modern arrangements. Of these
houses Longleat in Wiltshire and Wollaton near Nottingham are fine
examples[150].

[Note 150: Views of most of the buildings here mentioned may be
found in Britton's Architectural Antiquities, vols. i. ii. and iv.]

The distribution of domestic buildings is well illustrated in the Survey
of Theobald's taken by the Parliament's Commissioners in 1650[151]. This
mansion was built by lord Burleigh about 1560: it afterwards became a
favourite residence of James I. who received it from lord Salisbury in
exchange for the manor and palace of Hatfield. The Survey contains a
very minute and accurate description of Theobald's palace, from which
the following account is given partly in the words of the old
surveyors.--It consisted of two principal quadrangles besides the dial
court, the buttery court and the dove-house court, in which the offices
were situated. The fountain court was a square of 86 feet, on the east
side of which was a cloister of seven arches. On the ground floor of
this quadrangle was a spacious hall; the roof of which was arched with
carved timber of curious workmanship. On the same floor were the lord
Holland's, the marquis of Hamilton's, and lord Salisbury's apartments,
the council chamber and waiting room. On the second floor was the
presence chamber, finished with carved oak wainscoting and a ceiling
full of gilded pendants. Also the privy chamber, the withdrawing room,
the king's bed-chamber, and a gallery 123 feet long, 'wainscoted with
oak, and paintings over the same of divers cities, rarely painted and
set forth with a fret ceiling, with divers pendants, roses and
flower-de-luces; also divers large stags heads, which were an excellent
ornament to the same.' On the upper floor were the lord chamberlain's
lodgings and several other apartments, with terrace walks on the leads.
At each corner stood a high and fair tower, and over the hall in the
middle 'a large and fair turret in the fashion of a lantern, curiously
wrought with divers pinnacles at each corner, wherein hangeth 12 bells
for chiming and a clock with chimes and sundry work.' The middle court
was a quadrangle of 110 feet square, on the south side of which were the
queen's chapel, presence chamber, and