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 VILLAS IN VARIOUS STYLES. 917 room ; r, dressing-room ; r/, spare bed-room ; e, dressing-room ; /, bed-room ; ff, spare I)ed-room ; h, dressing-room ; i, water-closets ; k, back staircase for company's servants ; /, family l)ed-room ; 7n, ladies' dressing-room, with an outlet to the flat roof over the billiard-room ; 7i, passage ; o, bed-room, or dressing-room ; p, fii'e-proof staircase ; 7, stairs leading to the nurseries ; r and s, housemaids' closets, supplied with hot and cold water, wood, and coals ; t, water-closet ; u, light to lower water-closet ; v, bed-room ; w, governess's room ; x, upper j)art of kitchen ; y, z, and c^, sleeping-nurseries ; a', day nursery; 6, plunge bath. Each of the spare bed-rooms is shut in by a door, having a dressing-room and water-closet to each. The family part of the house is quite dis- tinct from the visiters' apartments, and has no communication with them but by the passage, n. 1858. Tlie Attic Floor, fig. 1602, contains, a, fire-proof staircase; b, room containing a fmnace and boiler for heating water to supply all the bed-rooms in the floor below ; c, closet ; d, passage to the bed-rooms ; c, stair for company's servants ; /, concealed passage for bell wires, &c. The other apartments, eleven in number, except the closet g, are bed-rooms. All the bell wires rise perpendicularly in tubes from the different rooms, to the concealed passage, /, and descend in one tube or trunk to the bells, which are Inuig in the passage, /, in the jilan of the principal floor, fig. 1600. The boiler, h, supplies the whole of the house with hot water. The Basement Floor, fig. 1603, contains an inclined plane, a, for sliding down pipes of wine ; h, cellar stairs ; c, large cellar for hot- air stove to heat the whole house ; f1, cellar for wine in wood ; e, large wine-cellar ; f, store-cellar ; and g, butler's wine-cellar. 1859. Construction. The walls are built of freestone, from a quarry on the spot (indeed, partly taken out of the foundations of the house), and internally they are lined with brick. All the partition walls are of brick, and, for the most part, are nine inches in thickness, except those in the attic story, which are of brick nogging. There is not a single lath and plaster partition in the house ; in consequence of which, the danger from fire, if it should break out in any part, is greatly diminished. The roofs over the billiard-room, over the staircase, over the smaller buildings between the staircase and the court, and over the passage leading to the nursery, 2, are flat, as may be seen in the vertical profile of them shown in the general plan, fig. 1598. 1860. General Estimate. The cost of this building, in a country where freestone is abundant, and easily worked, would not exceed ^10,000 ; but in the neigh- bourhood of London, if it were built with brick and covered with cement, the amount woidd not be less than £^20,000. The cubic contents are 460,464 feet ; which gives about 5^1. per foot for the country, and about llrf. for the neighbourhood of London. 1861. Remarks, This Design, in point of style, affords a very good specimen of a Grecian villa, in what may be called pure architectural taste, with the chimney tops entirely concealed. This concealment of the chimney tops has almost always been aimed at by Architects, when the object in view was what is called the pure Grecian ; and certainly the absence of chimneys is favourable to the expression of the temple-like style of Architecture, which is characterised by porticoes, pediments, and low-pitched roofs. Mr. Joseph Wood, for whose taste in Architecture we have the highest respect, and with whom we agree in almost every thing, has given a sketch of a Grecian villa, to illustrate his Essay on Villas, published in the first volume of the Essays of the London Archi- tectural Society. We have copied a part of this sketch, fig. 1604, for the sake of showing