Regency Household: Small Villa in the Gothic Style

LODGE OR SMALL VILLA IN THE GOTHIC STYLE DESIGN No 3 PERSPECTIVE VIEW CHAMBER PLAN PLATE III TWO ELEVATIONS GROUND PLAN PLATE IV EITHER as a Lodge attached to an entrance opening into an extensive park and leading to a mansion of corresponding dignity or as a small separate residence in a confined site adjoining a road this composition recommends itself by variety of outline and by a piquant assemblage of parts If adopted for the former purpose it would bear a little reduction and in that case the outer part of the porch might be omitted Were it on the contrary intended as a small Villa it might be extended by an additional room and by making the rooms themselves somewhat more spacious Both the plan and elevations are such that this might be accomplished in a variety of ways and so as rather to improve than to in jure its present appearance One mode would be to double the lowermost of the elevations in Plate 4 by building a tower with an oriel window corresponding with that forming the staircase and carrying out arches similar to those of the porch This last mentioned part might then be made a small conservatory opening into the drawing room where the kitchen now is and the kitchen might either be added on the opposite side or that and other offices constructed below which would perhaps be preferable because otherwise the house would require to be so enlarged according to this arrangement as to allow a passage to the kitchen between the drawing and dining rooms As here shown the Design might be executed in white brick and stone dressings for 682 10 0 In brick and stucco for 476 0 0 And in rough stone with tooled quoins for 613 0 0

The design and description appeared in Domestic Architecture: Being a Series of Designs for Mansions, Villas, Rectory Houses, Parsonage Houses, Bailiffs’ Lodge, Gardener’s Lodge, Game-keeper’s Lodge, Park Gate Lodges, Etc. in the Grecian, Italian, and Old English Styles of Architecture. With Observations on the Appropriate Choice of Site; the Whole Designed with Strict Reference to the Practicability of Erection, and with Due Attention to the Important Consideration of Uniting Elegance, Convenience and Domestic Comfort with Economy … With Accurate Estimates Appended to Each Design (1833).

Other designs from this book:

Regency Household: Villa in the Grecian Style

Regency Household: A Rectory House

Regency Household: A Gardener’s Lodge

Regency Household: Gothic Mansion

Regency Household: Italian Villa

Regency Household: Park Gate Lodge in the Grecian Style


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