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 VILLAS IN VARIOUS STYLES. 849 steps to the servants' passage, t ; nursery, u ; maids' bed-rooms, v, tv; man's bed-room, X ; closet to the nursery, y ; and ladies' water-closet, z. 1766. Construction. The walls are supposed to be of brick, eighteen inches thick, and the roofs slated. The chimney-tops, and other stone-like finishings, to be formed of cement. Fig. 1483 is a section on the line A B, in which the relative heights of the ^^ ^ 1483 different floors may be observed. Fig. 1484 is a section on the line C D. Fig. 1485 is an end elevation, showing the window over the fireplace, and the front of the green- house ; and fig. 1486 is an elevation of the entrance ¥¥ 1484 front, in the chimney of which there may also be a window, if the prospect from it is worth displaying from the dining-room ; which, in a villa of this description, is generally the living-room. 1767. Remarks, This villa, which has been exe- cuted, is the contribution of Charles Fowler, Esq. (the distinguished Archi- tect of Covent Garden and Hungerford Markets, and of the magnificent con- servatories at Syon). Mr. Fowler is so well satisfied with the plan of this villa, that he informs us, were he to buUd a country-house for him- ___„ self, he should adopt it as a 'WW^ 1485 model. The entrance at once to a large hall has a good effect, and immediately stamps the house as the abode of gentility ; and the architectural green-house strengthens the same idea. The hall, at the same time that it confers so much character, is useful as containing the stair- case. By having the kitchen and all the offices in a separate building, the height of the rooms, and of the doors and windows, is not required to be so great as that of the principal part of the house J by which a con- 5 F