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 VILLAS IN VARIOUS STYLES. H71 Sl-3 Ft. 10 "iiilii" I 60 Ft. lawn and shrubberies ; y, entrance, foot, and carriage gates ; z, shrubbery between liouse and church-yard; and &% public road, with footways on each side. Fig. 1471 is the one pair of stairs plan ; in which a is the best bed-room, with entrance lobby ; b, a boudoir, with bay window; c, d, e, f, andy, family bed-rooms; h, staircase; i, lobby ; k, water-closet; /, linen and store closet ; tn, servants' staircase ; n, passage through the house, with venti- lation and light at each end ; o, housekeeper and lady's maid's bed-room ; p and q, ser- vants' bed-rooms ; r, servants' passage, with housemaid's sink and closet, s ; t, upper part of the kitchen. There are lofts above the main body of the house ; and space for addi- tional bed-rooms. 1758. Remarks. This Design has been sent us by Charles Barry, Esq., the dis- tinguished Architect of the Traveller's Club-house, and of the Slanchester Institution, &c., to whom we have before acknowledged our obligation for revising the plans and views of our correspondent Selim's Beau Ideal vUla. " This Design," IVIr. Barry observes, " was made for a parsonage, to be erected in a most delightful situation in Somersetshire, com- manding an extensive view of the Mendip and "Wrington Hills, the Bristol Channel, &c. ; and ha-ing the parish church, which is a very picturesque Gothic building, adjoining it, and in view fi-om the windows of the principal rooms. These circumstances suggested the character of the Design, and the form of the window in the lawn front, which admits of a convenient view of the surrounding scenery from the drawing-room and boudoirs. The building is proposed to be erected of the stone of the countrj-, a close grit, and of a cream colour ; the coins, window-dressings, parapets, bonding, and lacing courses (vertical and horizontal bond), being rubbed, and the intermediate spaces faced with rough M-aU- stone (rubblework) in regular courses, and hammer-dressed. The cost of the building will be about jflSOO." Our readers, we are sure, will admire with us the great beauty and marked character of this Design externally ; no less than the fitness, completeness, and luxury of its internal distribution. Mr. Barry states that the local circumstances