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 VILLAS IN VARIOUS STYLES. 859 13 without talent or intellect. According to the present state of architectuial knowledge and taste among the middle classes of Britain, ten persons would prefer building the Design before us, for one who would risk his reputation for gentility by attempting Design VI. Design XI. — A Villa in the Modern Style of Architecture, fire-proof, and suitable for a Marine Residence, for the occasional Occupation or the peimanent Abode of a small Family of Fortune. 1781. The Situation of this buDding, its designer, Mr. Varden, states, may be on the north-west of the sea-shore, or on the bank of a large river or lake, the ground sloping gently to the south or east, and the pleasure-grounds reaching to the shore, or the water's ed^e. The elevation of the ground floor of the house above the surface of the water should on no account be less than ten feet ; but twenty feet, or from that to 100 feet or upwards, would be far more desirable. 1 782. Accommodation. The general appearance is shown in fig. 1 508j which is a view taken at a distance of 150 feet from the angle of the building. Fig. 1509, to a scale of thirty feet to an inch, is the plan of the basement story, in 1509 W which a is the staircase ; bbb are passages ; c, the pantry, eight feet six inches high, and twenty-four feet by ten feet ; it is ventilated more effectually than is usual, by having the ceiling pierced in several places, to allow the foul air to pass through, and be conveyed into a vertical flue, like that of a chimney ; and so carried up the corner pier of the portico, where it escapes through the shaft ; d is the dairy, nineteen feet six inches by ten feet six inches, also ventilated by an air shaft ; e, the footman's pantry, seventeen feet by ten feet, with warm water laid on from the furnace and warming apparatus ; and cold water from the cisterns on the roof; /, the servants' hall, twenty-one feet by fifteen feet six inches ; g, the furnace, boiler, &c., for heating the hall, staircase, and passages with hot water; /(, coal-cellar, eleven feet six inches by ten feet ; i, the wine-cellar, twenty-three feet by ten feet, with an air shaft for occasional ventilation ; h, beer-ceUar, nineteen feet by sixteen feet, ventilated in the like manner, the beer casks, &c., being brought in from the yard under the terrace by an inclined plane, through the dooi-way, m; I, footman's bed-room, twenty-three feet six inches by ten feet, having a fireplace in the comer, the flue of which is carried up the pier of the portico. Fig. 1510 is the plan of the principal floor. The main approach to the house is by a flight of steps, a, to the terrace, b, which is continued all round the building ; there is another flight of steps, c, on the opposite side, giving access to the garden. A smaller flight of steps, d, leads from the kitchen to the offices and stables, and is intended for the use of the servants, and of the tradespeople bringing provisions and articles of daily con- sumption to the house. The dotted lines, e e, represent panels of slight ironwork, to separate the portion of the terrace used by the sen'ants from the part frequented by the family. The terrace nowhere approaches the walls of the building nearer than three feet six inches ; that space being ab'»lutely requisite for the area, in order to give light