Page:An Encyclopædia of Cottage, Farm, and Villa Architecture and Furniture.djvu/909

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VILLAS IN VARIOUS STYLES. 885 Design XV. — A Mansion, in the Style of a Scotch Baronial House of the Sixteenth Century, with the Accommodation and Arrangements suitable to a Villa of the Nineteenth Century, 1819. Accommodation. The general appearance of this villa is shown in fig. 1566, and the ground plan in fig. 1 565. In the latter are, a, outer lobby ; b, inner lobby ; c, butler's room : d, waiting-room ; e, housekeeper's room ; f, great staircase ; g, servants' hall ; h, passage ; i, water-closet ; k, kitchen ; I, back stairs to the dining-room ; ?«, covered passage ; n, scullery ; o, wash-house and laundry ; p, men-servants' water-closet ; q, women-servants' ditto ; r, lobby ; s, coal house ; t, dairy ; u, potato-house ; v, coach or gig-house ; w, stable for four horses ; x, cow-house ; y, open court ; z, gratings to the cellars, below the back part of the house, for wine, beer, &c. Fig. 1567 shows the plan of the principal floor, which contains, a, stairs to the bed-rooms or attics ; b, lobby ; c, draw- ingroom ; d, boudoir ; e, closet off the boudoir ; /, water-closet off ditto ; g, library ; h, great staircase ; i, dining-room ; k, passage ; I, parlour, or principal bed-room ; m, back stairs from the kitchen, and leading up to bed-rooms above. 1820. Construction. The walls, in this style, are invariably of stone ; the windows and doors of the principal part of the building have hewn facings, and also the chimney tops, the battlements, the cornices, and the crow-steps. The roofs are steep, and covered with grey slate. Fig. 1568 is the south or front elevation; in which, on the left, may