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*Pride and Prejudice* — Building Floor Plans (Estimated/Creative)
Pride and Prejudice — Building Floor Plans (Estimated/Creative)
⚠️ This document is an estimate and creative reconstruction. It combines fragmentary descriptions of rooms, routes, windows, and gardens in the novel to reconstruct plausible floor plans, joining standard British Georgian/Palladian design with details from the text.
1. Pemberley—Darcy’s Estate
Exterior Layout (Based on the Description in Ch.43)
[North: Wooded Ridge]
┃
[Garden + Lawn] ━━━ [Main House: Great Stone Mansion] ━━━ [Stables]
┃ ┃ ┃
[Stream] ┃ [Rear Road]
┃ ┃ (← the Gardiners enter)
[Bridge] [Main Gate + Gravel Drive]
┃
[Glen + Walk (Ten-Mile Circuit)]
[Estate Lodge] ━━━ [Half-Mile Woodland Road] ━━━ [First View from the Hill]
Estimated Interior of the Main House
Ground Floor
┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ Entrance Hall (“fine proportion”) │
│ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ │
│ │
│ [Dining Parlour] [Drawing Room] [Library] │
│ River View + [Saloon] │
│ Large Table [Music Room] │
│ │
│ [Breakfast Parlour] [Mr. Darcy’s Study] │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
Explicit clues: “Dining-parlour... large, well-proportioned room” / “lofty and handsome rooms” / a different prospect from every window
First Floor
┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ [Picture Gallery] │
│ ━━━ Family Portraits + Large Portrait of Darcy ━━━ │
│ │
│ [Georgiana’s Sitting Room] ← Newly Refitted │
│ “lately fitted up with greater elegance” │
│ │
│ [Two or Three Principal Bedrooms] │
│ [Mr. Darcy’s Bedroom] │
│ [Georgiana’s Bedroom] │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
Explicit clues: “spacious lobby above” / “picture gallery” / “principal bed-rooms”
Outbuildings
- Stables—Darcy appears from the rear road in Ch.43
- Hothouse—presumed cultivation of grapes, nectarines, and peaches
- Livestock enclosures and granaries
- Possibly a small temple or decorative folly
2. Rosings—Kent
Exterior Layout (Based on Chs.28–29)
[Rosings Park Estate—Enormous Park]
┃
[Main House: “handsome modern building, on rising ground”]
┃
[Front: Many Windows—Window Tax as a Sign of Wealth]
┃
[Park Boundary = Paling]
┃
[Narrow Lane]
┃
[Hunsford Parsonage Garden]
Estimated Interior (Collins’s Account + First-Visit Description)
Ground Floor
┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ Entrance Hall │
│ → Antechamber → ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ │
│ │
│ [Large Family Sitting Room, Including Miss de Bourgh]│
│ [Drawing Room] │
│ │
│ [Dining Room—Huge Table, Ornate Silver] │
│ [Small Summer Breakfast Parlour] │
│ ← Collins compares the Philipses’ parlour to this │
│ │
│ [Music Room with “capital instrument”] │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
Additional Rooms and Buildings
- Mrs. Jenkinson’s Room—contains a piano; Elizabeth is invited to “come and practise” there
- Anne de Bourgh’s Sitting Room, allowing for her ill health
- Sir Lewis de Bourgh’s Former Study, now vacant
- Carriage house for several carriages
- Hothouse, essential on so extensive an estate
Gardens
- Gravel walks
- Park, separated from Hunsford Parsonage by a paling
- Grove, where Elizabeth walks
3. Netherfield Park
Exterior Layout (Based on Chs.7–12)
[Road]
┃
[Main Gate]
┃
[Gravel Drive—About Half a Mile]
┃
[Main House: Rented Country House]
┃
[Garden, Including Shrubbery]
┃
[Woods and Fields]
┃
[Toward Longbourn—Three Miles]
Estimated Interior
Ground Floor
┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ Entrance Hall │
│ │
│ [Drawing Room—Large Enough for a Ball] │
│ ━━━ Fireplace, Card Tables, Piano ━━━ │
│ │
│ [Dining Parlour] │
│ │
│ [Breakfast Parlour] │
│ ← Everyone is gathered here when Elizabeth arrives│
│ │
│ [Library—Bingley: “I have not many”] │
│ [Card Room—loo, piquet] │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
First Floor
┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ [Master Bedroom Suite—Bingley] │
│ │
│ [Jane’s Sickroom—Isolated During Her Illness] │
│ ↳ Mr. Bingley visits frequently │
│ │
│ [Elizabeth’s Guest Room—Presumably Beside Jane’s] │
│ │
│ [Rooms for Miss Bingley and Mrs. Hurst] │
│ [Room for Mr. and Mrs. Hurst] │
│ [Mr. Darcy’s Room] │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
Gardens
- Shrubbery—where Elizabeth encounters Darcy’s party
- Avenue
- Gravel walks
4. Longbourn—The Bennet Family
Exterior Layout (Based on the Novel as a Whole)
[Village of Longbourn]
┃
[Road + Gravel Drive]
┃
[Main House: Medium-Sized Country House]
┃
[Garden, Including Wilderness]
┃
[Farm—Where Horses and Laborers Work]
┃
[Toward Meryton—One Mile]
Estimated Interior (The Most Fully Described)
Ground Floor
┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ Entrance Hall + Vestibule │
│ ↳ Mrs. Bennet paces here to overhear Collins │
│ │
│ [Drawing Room] │
│ ↳ Daily family life and receiving visitors │
│ │
│ [Dining Parlour] │
│ ↳ Family meals │
│ │
│ [Breakfast Parlour] │
│ ↳ Ch.19: Collins’s proposal │
│ │
│ [Library—Mr. Bennet’s Study] ★ │
│ ↳ Mr. Bennet’s sanctuary; family access restricted│
│ ↳ Ch.20: Elizabeth summoned; Mr. Bennet’s verdict │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
First Floor
┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ [Parents’ Bedroom] │
│ [Jane and Elizabeth’s Shared Bedroom] ← Estimated │
│ [Mary’s Bedroom—Presumably Private] │
│ [Kitty and Lydia’s Shared Bedroom] │
│ [Guest Room for Collins] │
│ [Servants’ Rooms—Presumably in the Attic] │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
Gardens and Exterior
- Shrubbery—the sisters’ conversation in Ch.17
- Wilderness—Lady Catherine’s threat in Ch.56
- Hermitage—Mrs. Bennet’s boast in Ch.56
- Gravel walk
- Copse—Mr. Bennet walks there in Ch.49
- Farm—where the horses work
5. Hunsford Parsonage
Exterior Layout (Based on Ch.28)
[Boundary of Rosings Park—Paling]
┃
[Lane]
┃
[Small Gate]
┃
[Garden + Gravel Walk]
┃
[Main House: Small but Well Built]
┃
[Rear Yard + Two Meadows]
Estimated Interior
Ground Floor
┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ Entrance + Hall │
│ │
│ [Parlour] ← At the rear; no garden view │
│ ↳ Charlotte deliberately chooses the back room │
│ ↳ Ch.34: Darcy’s first proposal │
│ │
│ [Dining Room] │
│ │
│ [Mr. Collins’s Book Room] ← Facing the road │
│ ↳ Collins watches carriages and tends the garden │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
Charlotte’s clever arrangement: Collins’s study faces the road, while the parlour is at the rear. Collins remains in his own room and troubles his wife less.
First Floor
- Bedroom for Mr. and Mrs. Collins
- Guest rooms for Elizabeth and Maria
Outbuildings and Grounds
- Garden, tended personally by Collins
- Two meadows
6. Lucas Lodge
Estimate
[Small Estate One Mile from Meryton]
┃
[Main House: A Large House Rather Than a Mansion]
┃
[Garden + Stables]
Interior:
- Drawing Room—gathering in Ch.6
- Dining Room
- Library or Sitting Room
- Four or Five Bedrooms for Five or Six Children
7. Mrs. Philips’s House—Meryton
Estimate
[Central Meryton—Facing the Street]
┃
[Townhouse Form—Narrow Frontage]
┃
[Three- or Four-Story Georgian Townhouse]
Ground Floor: Shop—perhaps her attorney husband’s office—+ Hall
First Floor: Drawing Room + Dining Room
Second Floor: Bedrooms
Explicit clues: “size and furniture of the apartment”—Collins compares it with “the small summer breakfast parlour at Rosings,” not realizing this means it is very small / “parlour window”—a window facing the street / an “ample” room
8. The Gardiners’ House—Gracechurch Street
Estimate
[Commercial District Near Cheapside]
┃
[Townhouse—Presumably Four Stories]
Ground Floor: Hall + Entrance to Mr. Gardiner’s Office/Warehouse
First Floor: Drawing Room + Dining Room
Second Floor: Couple’s Bedroom + Children’s Room
Third Floor—Attic: Servants’ Rooms
Explicit clues: “passage” in Ch.27—the entrance passage / “drawing-room window” in Ch.27—from which Jane watches the carriage arrive / “stairs”—the children welcome them from the stairs
9. Pemberley Dependency—The Lambton Inn
Estimate
[Center of Lambton—Five Miles from Pemberley]
┃
[Coaching Inn—Horse-Change Station and Lodging]
Ground Floor: Public House + Dining Room + Stables
First Floor: Guest Rooms for the Gardiner Party
- Sitting Room—letters received; Darcy visits
- Bedrooms—Mr. and Mrs. Gardiner + Elizabeth
Explicit clues: Ch.44, “they were just returned to the inn to dress” / Ch.46, “she walked up and down the room”—the sitting room and bedrooms are separate
Uses in Translation and Adaptation
| Scenario | Use |
|---|---|
| Drama/Film Art Department | Design each estate’s rooms consistently |
| Stage Adaptation | Reconstruct the spaces of key scenes: the Ch.34 proposal, the Ch.43 Pemberley gallery, and the Ch.56 wilderness confrontation |
| Expanding Descriptions in Translation | Reference when naturally clarifying the original’s ambiguous spatial descriptions |
| Novel Adaptation | Ensure spatial logic when adding character movement |