A VILLA IN THK ANGLO-ITALIAN STYLK. 



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is often destroyed by the tame and bald 

 character of the surrounding scenery. For 

 suburban dwellings, especially, simple mo- 

 difications of the Italian style are always 

 satisfactory. 



The villa shown in the frontispiece of this 

 number is one called Fortis Green, situated 

 in the suburbs of London, and the propertj'^ 

 of W. A. Nesfield, Esq., a landscape paint- 

 er of eminence. It is picturesque in its 

 exterior, as one would expect the residence 

 of a landscape painter to be. And an exa- 

 mination of the interior plan will show w^at 

 are considered desiderata, in England, in a 

 villa of this class. The references to this 

 plan are as follows : 



a. Dravvin£^-room. 

 a a. Green-bouse. 



b. Dining-room. 



c. Passage. 



d. Staircase. 



«. Entrance porch. 

 /. Closet. 



g. Way to cellar, from kilclicn and glas.s closet. 

 A. Kitchen. 

 i. Scullery. 



k. Stairs to servant's room. 

 I. Laundry. 

 tn- Store-room. 

 n. Tool-house, at end of which is the stoke-hole 



to the green-house. 

 0. Passage to the yard. 

 p. Larder. 

 q. Coal hole. 

 r. Wash-house. 

 s. Pump. 

 t. Yard. 

 u. Stable. 

 uu. Dung pit. 



The chief difference between this plan 

 and one of a villa of the same class in this 

 country, is the superior accommodation af- 

 forded to the kitchen offices, and the near 

 proximity of the stable to the house. In 

 the arrangement of the kitchen offices, the 

 English are more perfect, indeed, than any 

 other people, and we have much yet to 

 learn from them. In this country, this per- 



Fig. 61 — i'ta» of the Principal Floor of tlie ViOa. 



tion of our domestic establishments, even 

 in houses of a superior grade, is often com- 

 paratively cramped and meagre ; a feature 

 which, in the end, is always found to be 

 antagonistical to the comfort of the family 

 in all its branches. 



Fortis Green is a suburban place of only- 

 four and a quarter acres of ground. Of 

 this, one and a quarter acre is occupied by 

 the house, and ornamental and kitchen 



