VILLAS IN VARIOUS STYLES. 919 Design XX. — A Villa for a small Family, in the Castellated Style, of Got/iic Archi- tecture. 1862. The Situation for a villa, in this style, according to general associations, should be on a bold commanding rocky prominence, where it might be supposed that, in some former period, a baronial castle for actual defence may have been placed. It is not necessary on that account, however, that it should be accompanied by fortified outworks ; but still the terrace- walls, and other ornamental architectural appendages which accom- pany it, should either be in some degree marked by the lines and finish of fortified walls, or should imitate their ruins. Even, in point of architectural harmony, the crests (tops) of such walls should be more or less embattled, like the parapets of the house. A slight degree of acquaintance with Military Architecture, or with the existing ruins of castles of the fourteenth century still to be found in Britain, or on the continent of Europe, will afford many excellent hints for designing the external Architecture of the main body, and especially of the appendages, of buildings in this style. For the arrangeraient of the interior, recourse must be had to the wants of modern society ; for, as we have said before, the object, in cases of this sort, is never to mimic individual examples, but to imitate the general spirit of the style and manner. Fig. 1605 is a perspective view ')( the Design before us. 1863. Accommodation. Fig. 1606, is the plan of the principal floor; in which a is the entrance porch ; b, the hall ; c, the dining-room ; and, d, the drawingroom ; each of which has a light closet attached to itj e, water- closet ; f, staircase ; g, coat- closet ; h, butler's room ; i, passage ; j, library ; k, back j ^qq staircase ; I, servants' hall ; m, kitchen ; n, scullery ; o, pantry ; and, p, house- keeper's room. Above the dining-room area bed- room and dressing-room, and there are similar apartments above the drawingroom, hall, and porch. Above the other rooms, the ar- rangement of the bed-rooms and di-essing-rooms is ob- vious. Above the servants' hall and pantry are sleeping and day nurseries ; and in the attic story are the servants' apartments, and bed-rooms for single gentle- men.
